You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

It seems like people need to get into the last album until they can tolerate the next one. And then, slowly but surely, by the time the new one's available, they've gotten into the last one and they really love it.

To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends.

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.