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.

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

When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better.

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

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

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