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.

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

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.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Do you have a clear Direction of Life or are you merely floating down the river of Life like a dead fish?

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

eat whatever you meet along the way.If you come late don't eat but wack yours with hers.

Let go of all your anxiety. Embrace the peace of God.

oYu begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".