"An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?"

“If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit.”

“The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.”

“I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jul 19, 2014

“I'm not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person.”

“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.”

“The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!”

“All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the circus.”

Source : Opposing disaffiliation of the Scottish Independent Labour Party from the Labour Party, in 'Daily Herald' 12 January 1931 (often quoted as '...no right in the bloody circus')