Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.