Ernie: What kind of fish? Max Fischer: Barracuda, stingrays, electric eels, trout, hammerheads, piranha, giant squid, octopi... Herman Blume: Piranhas? Really? Max Fischer: Yes, I'm talking to a guy in South America.
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not ...
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin t...
My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six...
My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He w...
Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric...
Sometimes the words against a big selfish person have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him is to give him now a shock treatment through ...
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marsha...
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the ...
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.
When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.
Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought...once you've hired the car...
These new 'hybrid' F1 cars represent an extremely complex project.
I'm a typical guy. Driving cars and speed are really fun.
Be it a house, be it a car or be it a little motorbike, there is always a place for the family!
Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.
My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.
