I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.

When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.

I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.