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.

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.

I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

Peace starts with a prayer.

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

Life is not a hope, but it is all of this !!

I think so, ' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.