The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

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.

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.

You can't hold back the water - but you can swim with the current.

Fortune befriends the bold.

If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.

Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Being down match point, it's just not fun.