Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the ... everyday.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home.

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.