I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

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.

One of the most scariest thing in life is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you is...yourself

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own.

Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart

I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?'

Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.