All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

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.

Where were you? When everything was falling apart. All my days staying by the telephone. You never rang and all I needed was a call.

Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.

When you take the time to cleanse your physical body of accumulated stress and toxicity, you are rewarded with increased vitality and optimal health.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

My basic advise is don't lose money

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

It has to be very tight to seem loose.

To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems.

So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.