I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

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.

A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.

I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Vodafone is building a digital stadium in Istanbul. It is really worth going to see that. The whole experience will change with the possibilities viewers will have.

There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

The End is the Beginning is the End

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.