I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.

Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.

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 really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.

I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me.

I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!

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

My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

I'm a bit of a hoarder, so I did tend to buy things and just hang on to them.

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.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

We’ll meet the meat.

As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.