I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

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.

Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers... (Matthew 12:48)

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.

Yoga is the best tool to help you change your mind about your body

I can say, let's go to the DNA of the brand and find something that I can introduce into my work. It's part of the patrimony of fashion.

Some people CHASE happiness. And some people CHOOSE happiness.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.