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

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.

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

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.