Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were working with lower-level theatrical lights. In most cases, people were really respectful of that.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.