We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up.
Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.
I like the type of culture that the Internet allows to happen. And, of course, for some bizarre reason, that is cats!
Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness. . . The smaller the idea the happier I am.
I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.
My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it. . . In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.
At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.