With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

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.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

We change the future with every choice we make,

If you want to be somebody in this world, don't fear any sacrifice it will be recommended for you to be who you want

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.