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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s.

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally.

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.