Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.
When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.
I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.
Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.