Everybody is entertained to death.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

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.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.