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

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

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

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.

Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting and you don't need any record companies. The way I do everything comes from that, the impact of those two things.

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.

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.