57 Quotes by Richard D. James

If you're making things at home, there is no structure - no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK, that's the end of that period."

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

It's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously - you get more of an honest reaction to what you've done.

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.

In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

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

You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.