I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

First opportunity is the golden opportunity.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask.

Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.