“If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.”
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“I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.”
“I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.”
“The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.”
“That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.”
“I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.”
“At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.”
“I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.”
“The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.”
“Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.”
“It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.”
“I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.”
“In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture is in the centuries when Christianism was dominant and was present in almost all works of art - not only liturgical works, but also literature and music. Yes, it's important to have that in our present. It doesn't mean that people have to adhere to a dogma or practice a religion, but it's part of our heritage, and you have to at least try to understand it. Otherwise you can't be a modern person.”
“ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.”
“I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.”
“I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.”
“I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.”
“She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.”
“During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.”
“I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.”