I often work by avoidance.

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.

I know what I know and what I don't know... I will find out.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer.

My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.