There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

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.

An abundance of thinking leads to me, me, me.An abundance of Thanking leads to YOU, YOU, YOU!

If you are doing something good, never do it free

Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip.... “We don’t have five minutes.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.