Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

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.

Never give up on yourself.You have divine abilities for a great mission.

We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum.

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.