I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

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.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration light out after it with a club.

Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

Why, play we, these games of mere men?

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.