I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.