I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.

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

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.