The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

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.

I feel relieved, reborn, I'm me again.Free from heartbreak, that strong yet invisible chain, That stymied me from living again.

I've done a lot of special things in this game, and for none of that to be considered clutch, it's an injustice.

There's always a reason for everything.

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

If Trump is going to govern in a fascist way, then we need to make America ungovernable.