I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

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

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect