I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.