For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.