People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

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.

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason, " and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

I'm not society's version of beautiful But you're mine.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Just keep following your damn dreams, it just costs a lot of damn money. I'm broke, but I have a dream.

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it.

The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.