It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.

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.

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.

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 know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.