The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.
The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.
What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?
One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
