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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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

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….

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….

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!.

At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instrument….

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….

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….

Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay.

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….

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 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….