Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.

I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky break, but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of that music, I just never envisaged... not through a lack of confidence or belief, I just didn't think that I'd be sharing the bill with people that I was going out to see myself.

It's all gravy when everything's great, but if there comes a point where there's a problem, as with any kind of relationship you need to fix it. There's always going to be something, and it could be the smallest detail you'd never have expected or it could be something substantial, but it's how you deal with things.

I think the two sides to me are the same as two sides to anybody. In relation to the link between doing the label and being a DJ, it goes back to the thing of necessity. It's the only way I feel I can do something creative that's going to satisfy me.

I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.