Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

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.

Always think in circles to get your ideas around

Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify

Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

Yes, Im quirky, loud and crazy.