I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to music. Sometimes it hits and sometimes it doesn't, really.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.