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My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

'Deconstruction' is a really heavy record, a real symphony in a lot of ways, but with heavy musicians from the metal world - friends of mine.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

If we had an immigration policy, sanctuary cities would not be the symptom that manifests itself.

I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.

Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.

If you're sitting for more of the majority of the game and you really don't get a lot of touches, maybe every once in a while your confidence and your rhythm is probably out of sync.

There's a lot of pressure to release a game early. In Syndicate's case there was a lot of pressure from us on distributors Electronics Arts to release it in March '93, and I said no.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome.

Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

What I really miss about Mumbai's Durga Puja is the positivity and the synergy.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

When we were growing up the Barrowland was ominous. It had closed down. It was synonymous with Bible John.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

All of those 10cc 'Not in Love'-type synthetic choir sounds on 'Replica' are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.

It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.

In the Arab Spring, that obviously came to a head in Syria. I found myself arguing for intervention, mainly just because I wanted things to get better, and I had this germ of liberal humanitarian interventionism.