Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

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.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.

Our thoughts dictate how we feel

Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

Preparation position you for prosperity.

The willing horse is always overworked.

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.