We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

Good design begins with honesty asks tough questions comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

If death is in the room it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it because if you're not you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

I mean Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

I think about death a lot like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming and you can control it.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death where is thy sting?

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy uncomfortable unpleasant thing.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so yeah if something's not working it's time to not hold people back.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

My mother and dad were big animal lovers too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like 'meh let's talk about something else.'

Today because of President Obama's courage kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up oh my God it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

The Dead was cool It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.