I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

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

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.