I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

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.

One night I was layin' down, I heard Papa talkin' to Mama, I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

If you keep your mind sufficiently open people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

I still think I am the greatest.

The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level.