One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I d….

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think..

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence..

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer..

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , hei….

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming..

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obviou….

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones..

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should ….

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences..

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio..

Genius is individual, scenius is communal..

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band..

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it..

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, ….

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant..

Honor thy error as a hidden intention..

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could c….

You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It ….

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night..

I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll ma….