I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

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.

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.

I don't want people to watch the way I dress. I want people to watch the way I play.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.