Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read..

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 worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something….

The parties happen when we book the studio. That's a safe place. Get alcohol, food, girls, homies, and have these small listening parties while I'm r….

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….

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….

Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is w….

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a hea….

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books..

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then e….

I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting….

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours..

I go through the motions of living in society.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable..

Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong..

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me..

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find u….

Work isn't really work for me..

Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely..

It’s just this sense that you got something to say..