I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.