In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used - maybe a particular type of electronic organ or an echo unit. Then I just dabble with sounds until something starts to happen that suggests a texture. The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That's like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.