There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

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.

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.

If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

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