The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

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.

It was her chaos that made her beautiful.

But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.

You can make the best of it or you can let it get the best of you. Those are your two choices.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.