The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

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.

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

I wanted you to have the best pears in New York and I wanted to be the man to buy them for you.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'

The business aspect is more controlled than the culture, which allowed MCs to come in and talk about things like cars and jewels.

He's got to let go of you sometime.

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.