I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

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.

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

A law is a law. It can be voted in. It can be voted out. It can be voted in and stay in as long as you have the majority. And where do you have the majority? You kid yourself.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.