Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.
I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.
If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.
You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.
I listen to other people's music now. I didn't for many years but now I am fascinated again as much as I was when I started out.
All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.
Develop a good filing system.
Anything is easy to the man who sees. . . . The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.
There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.
I'm not going to change myself because I think it'll make somebody like me more. And in terms of being a business, I've found that when you're always in the people-pleasing mode, that's the easiest way to lose control of your brand's DNA. I want to sit across from someone who's authentically who they are, even if they're not my personal cup of tea. It's still more comforting than being across from someone who's making moves to please other people!