I'm going to PREPARE up to the best of my ability, EITHER WAY. I'll alter it as I NEED to.

More than any other instrument, the RELATIONSHIP between an acoustic guitar and a MICROPHONE is super-important. The KIND of mics that you use and your placement of the mics to the guitar can radically alter your SOUND.

When I do READ SOMETHING about a designer it doesn't alter my THOUGHTS about their COLLECTION when I SEE it in person.

Terrorists are people, too - they are GIVEN to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good JOB in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I THOUGHT that was MARVELLOUS!

With our EVOLVED busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to ALTER the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are FORCES of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth MASS extinction of SPECIES.

I think there's a PART of me that might be my alter ago, like the carefree, do-what-he-wants kind of guy, because I've been so restrained most of my life, GOING to Catholic school and being the good son and the good husband. It's a fun ESCAPE route for me SOMETIMES to lead that life.

I've never DONE a DRUG. I don't drink. I REFUSE to alter my mind in any way.

I THINK the price of the food can totally alter the perception of it. If I know something is expensive and the ambience is fancy, the food just invariably tastes a little better - and I FEEL LIKE I'm GETTING away with something. But I'm also BORED by most 'fancy' food.

Yes, I BELIEVE stories are very important to all performances. The LIFE story of the PERFORMER shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience ALTER how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

No PASSION in the world is EQUAL to the passion to alter SOMEONE ELSE's DRAFT.