The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

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 don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while!” ― Bill Murray character in Cadyshack

The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.

I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market.

Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist; but the past existed!

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.