People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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.

Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs.

Your gracefulness and feminine charms always so tender, you make my heart smile and wonder!

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.