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.

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.

The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what's gonna happen.

Music is just air moving around.

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'