That’s why I make music. When I listen to my favorite music made by other people, that’s what it does to me. So as a musician, I’m just trying to do the same thing with music I make. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But when someone comes to me and says the music I’ve made has affected them emotionally, that’s the most gratifying part of my job.

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

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.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.

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

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.