People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free cou

I looked at the canine companion. “Me cookies. You stay.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

I find it hard to take chances that might mean making bad decisions.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

Hang those that talk of fear.