“The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as sm...” — Richard Blackmore Quote

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

I've put out records over the years, whether it's with Blackfield or No-Man or Bass Communion or Porcupine Tree, that are pop records, ambient records, metal records, singer-songwriter records.

I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like television that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.