The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

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.

Wisdom is finer than pearls.

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!