The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

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.

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.

Xs and OsLove is a gameof tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting, for the next x or o.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.