When I only had one or two synthesisers you learn how to do everything on those things and you know them inside out. I think that's the best way to be with them.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.

Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm trying to make my solo shows something different altogether.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they know the specifications and everything, but they don't really get to know them.