The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

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.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal that will make this world a better place for future generations.

Don't let your pride get in your way of surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you. Life is a continuous journey of learning and growing.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.