I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious mat….

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation..

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art..

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, an….

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do..

New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to..

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of….

I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist. I was com….

Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me t….

People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform ea….

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions..

I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thought….

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay.

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making..

I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish..

I'd entirely forgotten about Pass The Distance, and then I went to Japan in 2000, and was asked to do interviews with all these journalists, who were….

I think I sent one [book] to Brian Eno. I don't know how I got to know his address, but I sent one to him. He called me up and he said, "I really lik….

I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of th….

We drank quite a lot and Tony Harrington said, "We're thinking of starting a record label at The Wire; how about you do a solo record?" I said, "Well….

I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter….

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God….