I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive

I'm slightly ambivalent to the whole relationship between the whole advertising world and music. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it's a really bad mismatch. I think on this occasion its fine because the iPod is like your own mini-library and that can't be a bad thing. It promotes eclecticism and that's very much what we are about so it's a good relationship.

I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics