"My parents are big liberals and taught us to never trust a government that rids their people of basic human rights."

“I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.”

“The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.”

“Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.”

“Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.”

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”

“I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency”

“There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.”

“How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?”

Source : "What Happened, Miss Simone?". Documentary, Biography, Music, www.imdb.com. 2015.