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

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

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.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

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

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.

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