Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

I take sounds and change them into words.

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

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

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

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.'

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing