I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

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.

Do you see the light within yourself? Do you see how you have given it to others?

Life is something whose definition vary person to person.

Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.