In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.