If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!

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.

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

You think you're an artist; prove it

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.