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.

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 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.

Patroclus, ' he said. He was always better with words than I.

Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination.

Real man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.

It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

Perfect love drives out fear

I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple.

Most of the federal government could be shut down.