"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me."

"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing."

"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."

"Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology."

"Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him."

"'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense."

"You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation."

"To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."