I'm very opinionated..

The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of….

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes..

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality..

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 ….

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun..

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness..

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention ….

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable..

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones..

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and….

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was re….

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb..

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything..

A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things yo….

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs..

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

I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them "Our exercise today is not to ….

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite w….

I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that yo….

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to..