Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

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'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

You have to let go of those feelings, Ra. Anger, fear, regret. It’s the only way you can forgive yourself and love again.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Once you play a superhero, is there any way back again? Once you're a superhero, it's just crazy.

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.