With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.

I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music I was making was really hectic and turning much more confrontational. So when I started working on Everything Ecstatic, that was very normal for me. I think it was a departure, but people read it as an escape from something, whereas every record I do is, I feel, a departure.

Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.

If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

I find that people in American are often much more purist. If you're into hip-hop, you're totally into hip-hop - you wear the uniform, that's all you listen to. If you're a goth, you're totally a goth - you've got, like, 4,000 piercings, black hair, you really go for it.