Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

My plan is if you come to the shows in the first run of dates the versions you'll hear live are quite close to the record. But because I can set this up identically afterwards in a hotel room I can actually work when I'm on the move. The aim is that all the pieces will have had substantial remixes and different parts added and subtracted.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.