Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

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.

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.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Make your dreams bigger than your nightmares.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, a sharpie must be plain deadly!

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.