I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.