I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.

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.

Want true success? Ask yourself these 3 questions daily:1. Who can I serve?2. Where can I contribute greatest?3. Is my work today congruent with my future goals?

The whole world has constantly wandered around in ‘negativity’ and died. This ‘Akram’ [science] is a fine ‘positive’ path.

I fink it is a femuw. A femuw of a winowcowus... A a-stinct winocowus.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.