It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same