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

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.