I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

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.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

If your brand isn't visible, it won't be viable.

You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.

Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.

I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

The great trues are too important to be new.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?