I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

Gratefulness heightens awareness.

If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.

I'm not a good guitar player.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.