Repetition doesn't really exist

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.

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.

If I have one, I'll have thirteen. No, there ain't no in-betwee. Cuz the more I drink, the more I drink, the more I drink.

I'd never even looked at a pair of skis. I didn't even realise the boots were separate. I thought it was one whole thing.

It's all about portion control. Grilled fish, a small amount of wild rice and vegetables is a good meal.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.