What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make quite brutal adaptations of the material to make it work on stage. I don't always like doing that because sometimes you're shaving away the things that you actually quite like about them, the spontaneity of it.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

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

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.