When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

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.

Life, ” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

Roger Federer is stylish.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.