I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.

I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.