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.

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.

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.

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.

The dynamic nature of knowledge is reflected in human progress and technological achievements.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

If you look at the new places opening, they're quite gutsy, earthy places.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.