I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.

I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.