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.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

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.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.