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

I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.

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.

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

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

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.