People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.