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.

I find the more I DJ, the more ideas I have and the more music I want to make.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there... I wanted to make something that was for the night.

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.

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

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.