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.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.

One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

About 20 years ago, I had a dream in which somebody sang one of the most beautiful melodies I'd ever heard, and gave it to me, and warned me not to forget it. Of course, I did forget it by the time I had got out of bed. Now as precaution, my phone is overloaded with half sung melodies.