I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens..

I'm a huge Boards Of Canada fan. They're my favorite contemporary band. The interesting thing about Boards Of Canada is, they use analog and digital ….

When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from your subconscious can slip through more ea….

I think the music that's part of your heritage is what you spend a lot of your early life rejecting. The very idea of folk music would break me out i….

I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records and play them for me. So ….

There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] ….

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise f….

I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the r….

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into..

We're in a situation now where we've got five long-play records of sort of eerie psychedelic pop music. I don't think that we can make another one. T….

It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible….

I think that's one of the problems with downloading mps these days. You never really get a chance to attune to a different logic, a different musical….

I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really like any actual bands from o….

John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the s….

Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM, which was an improvising ….

Folk songs in general, I like. The old spooky Scottish folk songs..

Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das Kapital over a….