As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

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.

In order to move forward, you will have to stumble along the way, but every falter in your stride just makes your next step even stronger.

Let's dispel a little myth. Working hard is NOT the key to success. It may be an ingredient, but it isn't the main one.

My Universe, crashing into yours, was the most beautiful accident this creation had ever witnessed.

All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.

Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Female exposure shouldn't be labelled as 'cheap.'

The only thing power respects, is power.