I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
As much as I love to dance, and I still take class, aerobics and that sort of thing, and I still move very well and all of that - I'm really not a dancer anymore.
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.
Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.
You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.
I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
