Quotes About Evolution

I've grown in a lot of ways - as a musician, as performer, as a songwriter.

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

I feel like I needed to grow up. I needed to grow up as a songwriter. I needed to grow up as a singer, a performer. I needed to grow up as a woman.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going to be different.

All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same.

I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.

As far as we're concerned, we're always Sonic Youth, and we're always making a Sonic Youth record. We just see it so much more as a continuum than a periodic thing. We're just in the studio making the next record, and we don't relate it to anything other than what's going on at the moment.

Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.

Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.

I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.