You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

I take sounds and change them into words.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.