“That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.”

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it’s hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to listen to your music.

I’m delighted about the track’s success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is,

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines.

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates.

I don’t think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

There is a certain grandeur.

We realized that, Oh my God, we’re actually playing in THE Kremlin!.

The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility.

If I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

The album was rejected by Arista, not surprisingly, and we then renegotiated our deal for the future and the next album,

I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

The first book I did – the first successful book – was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It’s like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.