The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

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've got nothing to do today but smile.

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.

For what was burned at the stakes beyond the fires did endure

When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

Love is a crocodile just above the water line waiting to attack the innocent herbivore of my freedom.

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

One Sallow does not make Summer.

If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace.

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.