For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

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.

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

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.

I believe in singing.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.