Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

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.

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

As the sun lowered into the city's skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people's hopes rising.

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

A good poem is a contribution to reality.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it

Don't ask whether it is going to be easy. Ask whether it is worth it.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you.