It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

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

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'