I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

There's a sense that, on a certain day, you want to destroy everything, even the ones you love. Humans are weird like that. You build an empire and you hate it as soon as it's done. That's because we're never satisfied.

I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

The layering of sound is by no means a two-dimensional process. Even though I've been doing it for a number of years, the diversity of it is so intriguing. It's a bit like traveling across the water. Though you may have done it time and time again it always hits you in a different way.

All kinds of music comes out that I'm not prepared for. Some of it is good, some of it rubbish, but I kind of accept it all. That's the nature of stream-of-consciousness. You can't always come up with your most lucid material in the heat of the moment. I take that risk when I play live. I open up my mind, however fertile a creative springboard it is that evening.

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.