I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too self-conscious about what you're doing, so you're not too worried about it.

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.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

One moment cannot be the most important.

If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.