More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

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.