If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

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.

HE didn't realize she was his everything until he gave her up for everything else.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you.

I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.

If you're single, then I'm single?" What's that supposed to be? Lyrics to a pop song?