Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

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.

you came in slowly like the fogand consumed me.

Future belongs to those who live with hopes and dreams, act on those dreams and hopes until those are a reality.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective?

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.