I love good, loud speakers.

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.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

Sure, I have a job now, but the acting business isn't always that solid, and so I wanted something to fall back upon.

You're insane, but you're my kind of man.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.