I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.