Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

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