It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps of what came before. We were very proud of what we had hit on.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

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.

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