To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

It is the strongest, not the prettiest birds that conquer the sky.

I hate him, too, " she shivered. "I hate his damned suffering.

While the club-kid lifestyle might’ve once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn’t dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you they will honor and serve you.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.