I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

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.

Love can be all things.But, Just never enough.

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

The brazen throat of war.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

Americans are now in disarray