I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

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

I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.