Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

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.

Life is like a box of cookies: it's good while it lasts, but before you know it, it's gone.

The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

I hate shopping at stores, online, anywhere.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

It is simple, therefore it is beautiful

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.