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"It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence."
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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

"Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution."

"I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need."

"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."

"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."

"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."

"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."

"The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this."
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"Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence."


"I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds."


"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"


"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it."


"I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically."


"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."


"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case."


"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."


"I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding."
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