You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

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.

Hope is flourishing flower.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

No way, that would kill my diet for the week. I don't know how you can stand to eat so unhealthy, Quinn. Just consider it an amuse-biatch.

Those that will always help a friend, will always have a friend.

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

The thing you resist is the thing you need to hear the most.