Siouxsie and the Banshees Quotes
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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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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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I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
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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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We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
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I had every intention of 'Bloodflowers' being the last Cure record. I thought it would be fantastic to finish with the best thing we'd ever done, but I wasn't sure we could pull it off.
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I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
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If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
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We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye.
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You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
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People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
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Today everything's a conflict of interest.
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We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?
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It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.
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I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
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I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.
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I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
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I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.
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In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
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I generally had a pretty good relationship with Siouxsie. She can have a pretty sharp sense of humour, but can also be quite playful at times. I liked playing records with her and especially talking about Mick Ronson. She reckoned that whilst everyone admired Bowie as Ziggy, Mick was sexier.
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I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.
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The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.
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There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.
