Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

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

The reason I didn't like cocaine is it made me do stupid things, have stupid conversations, and stay awake until 11 o'clock in the morning unable to think, read, sleep or speak.

Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn’t a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.

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

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

I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.