I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don't usually employ.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don't usually employ.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

When I use electronic beats and program things, there's something quite brain about that - you're feeling it in your body but it's like a puzzle you wanna solve, and it gets very detailed. I really enjoy that side of music.

I'd tell everyone to come in naked in full body paint.