Being an artist is a job for life.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

Evil changes everybody!