It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

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.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.