If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

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.

Put fourth your best effort in whatever you do...it may be your one and only shot.

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

Merit is better than miracles.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it.

I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.