I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

The world is experiencing great change, but you've got loads of people terrified of this change and the Donald Trumps, the Boris Johnsons making utterly simplistic, reductionist policy proposals that are unrealistic but then people buy it up.