In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

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.

As I’m beginning to find out, parenting is no child’s play, it couldSometimes determine whether couples continue to live together orgo their separate ways.

When mom died, my old roommate, Jimmy, said that in an alternate dimension, an alternate me might have a worse life.”“Now that's comforting, ” said Murphy.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

Bitcoin, generally, is a great idea. Keeping wallets on smartphones is the worst idea of the decade

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.