Siouxsie and the Banshees Quotes
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I've got a Facebook page, but I've never put anything on it. I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because, otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
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Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
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You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
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I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
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We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.
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My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.
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I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
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In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
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In open source, you really have to be near the watershed to have an impact on the source code. Customers want to be near the key contributors to the code, not a level removed.
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The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'
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I'm not chic, I could never be chic.
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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
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I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.
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If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.
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No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.
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I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.
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What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.
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My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
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The one I have the most angst towards would be YouTube. We had an opportunity to invest, and I just got nervous about the media industry's response to the unlicensed content on the site.
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Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.
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You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
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I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
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My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.