"Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about."

"It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of."

"People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to."

"The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

"My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops."

"The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture."