Everybody is entertained to death..

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it..

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing..

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'.

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stan….

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that so….

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a micro….

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market eco….

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-m….

Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have ….

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens..

I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very g….

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as ….

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he give….

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange,….

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world..

Culture is everything you don't have to do..

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how….

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting..

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of anc….

I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record,….