Think inside the work - outside the work

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.

Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going

There are things that go bump in the night

Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

Beginnings are always hard.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

There’s no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)

For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.