I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

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.

We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end.

If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world.

Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.