I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

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

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.