The thing I've learned is it's good to restrict your palette somewhat. I will try and, say, use two or three instruments on one track. You learn, aft….

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..

If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible ….

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles..

I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say an….

I still use a lot of cut-ups, I physically cut-up pieces of paper and stick them all together on another piece of paper then I'll think, "Ah, that lo….

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers..

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 eith….

It's the way I make music, I will take two ideas and smash them together and if they sit well together for me then that's fine, and it's the same wit….

When I only had one or two synthesisers you learn how to do everything on those things and you know them inside out. I think that's the best way to b….

I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would ….

Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm t….

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 don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my mai….

I tend to work in the mornings, then take a few hours off in the afternoon to walk the dog, and then come back and work in the evening. So, if I can ….

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song..

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 mo….

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 everyt….

I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea in my head and then….

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….

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them..