The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.