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.

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.

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

It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

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.