I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.