I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.
I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.
I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change lives, and there's certain songs that you know that are not going to be that serious.
We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
