It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

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.

Make me a shadow on the wall!

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see whats underneath.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

Gotta love speaking to the mother. What a unique and adorable woman.

I had never really been around cards.

The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.