There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(. . . ); the other was the fact that the century would end.
I think the world should be one community.
I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.
You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.
The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try to define what is good or what is true or what is beautiful. But government can provide nourishment to the ground within which these ideas spring forth from the seeds of inspiration within the human mind.
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. . . . Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.