"Country, blues, rock 'n' roll, these are things that anybody can sing - male, female, person of color. From wherever you are in the world, you can sing this."

“I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.”

Source : "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

“I have always been interested in giving back, and I wouldn't want to know a life without giving.”

“The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.”

Source : "Iraqi Kurds Hope Vote Legitimizes Leadership". Christian Science Monitor, May 15, 1992.

“I like the transience of Klimt paintings.”

“Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.”

“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?”

“People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.”

“I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.”