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“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.”
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“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.”
Source : "A Fireside Chat With Dave Douglas". All About Jazz interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. April 19, 2003. 
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“I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.”
Source : "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.
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“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty”
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“The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.”
Source : "Roy Lichtenstein: from heresy to visionary" by Sarah Churchwell, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.
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“Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.”
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“If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.”
Source : "'South Park''s Matt Stone". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. April 12, 2010.
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“You don't see what's gone before. A lot of that can be long, long boring hours in the gym, long, long hours on the track or, for the likes of Paula Radcliffe, long hours out on the road in the rain running and running.”
