"The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently."

“Practice puts brains in your muscles.”

“I'm married to Metallica.”

“I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.”

“Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.”

Source : Brenda Danilowitz, Josef Albers, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (2001). “The prints of Josef Albers: a catalogue raisonné, 1915-1976”, Hudson Hills

“If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.”

“There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through.”

“When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.”

“In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.”

Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.