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.

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'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.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

Today is nothing but a snapshot of a place I've been, but not the place I'll always be.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.