I'm quite interested in what words can be, if it's very few words, and it's a kind of club track but it has a sort of uplifting or spiritual kind of feeling to it. Somehow, something bigger than just the words on the page happens when you hear it all together. Sometimes I notice when I'm DJing, I put on a lot of tracks that feature vocals. I guess for me, it's just from growing up loving songs, so maybe I'm geared slightly more towards dance music that features a song element.

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.

In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.

A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"