When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.

I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.

You change all the time. Everything changes you.

It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it.

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me.

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.