I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

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.

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.

My hope is that God will have changed people's lives through me for the better.

Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever.

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

Wisdom belongs in wonder.