In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

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.

All POOR wish to become RICH, BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

It's never too late to act on your dream

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use