I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'