Siouxsie and the Banshees Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm not chic, I could never be chic.
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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 think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
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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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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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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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You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
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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.
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Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.
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I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
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Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
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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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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.