I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

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.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”)

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

You speak as if I actually have a soul. As if mine wasn’t ripped from me by lies and betrayal.

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

We cannot really think in one way and act in another.