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.

I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.

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

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