A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.

I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.

It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.