You can't really imagine music without technology.

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.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

Still, everybody wants to eat.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.

My biggest icon is Liz Taylor because I don’t think she had great taste but I loved her energy.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Every day I pray about all I do.

All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.