I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.