We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

A great book is like great evil.

I don't have this feeling like, oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here. I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

Pele should go back to the museum.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

I think every job you have to lie to get. You always say how wonderful it all is, that it's an amazing script - "I love you, you're such a great director." I think every actor does that.

People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.