"Sorrow makes an ugly face odious."

“Somebody once told me if you're doing what you're supposed to you don't have to force it.”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com

“You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I left to go off and do other things. In terms of the group, I'm definitely the boss. I wouldn't say they were scared of me, but they listen to what I have to say.”

“India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.”

“You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the drummer in Wilco or as a composer who composes primarily for rhythmic reasons - it doesn't matter to me as long as they dig the music. None of that matters to me if the music is crap.”

“The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.67, University of Toronto Press

“The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.”