The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

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

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.