I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.

Incidentally, the very, very first review that James Lavelle and I saw of Endtroducing was very negative! It was in The Wire, and the context of the review was that, you know, Mo'Wax was so far behind Ninja Tune. Heheheh. And people wonder why there was this sense of a feud between labels! We just kind of looked at each other and we were like, 'Oh, well, let the floodgates open!' But, not to be facile, that was literally the last bad review I ever saw for that album.

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

I always consider every album to be a snapshot.

Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.