I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

Like Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts and the block party on the last day of summer, we do things because traditions feel cozy and safe.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

I still probably smoke as much as I ever did!