The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

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.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

You don't need to be smarter

The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

A goal without a date is just a dream.