I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.

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.

My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.