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.

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

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

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.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

We have to make you think it's an important seat - because you're in it.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

Anything that is absurd I see as a Coen brothers' influence! The Coen brothers are my favorite people period.

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.