I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.

One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.

Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. #‎ RIP6MIX

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.

Everyone is going to prang out at some point. I don't worry about that stuff too much because most things can be sorted out with a chat, a cup of tea and an arm wrestle.

There was certainly a space I felt for me, don't complain about it not being there, make it.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

The spirit of gratitude brings out the true beauty of life.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.