I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

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 never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'