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

If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.

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

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

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

Everybody is entertained to death.