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.

- Alasdair Maclean

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…

- Alasdair Maclean

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…

- Alasdair Maclean

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

- Alasdair Maclean

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

- Alasdair Maclean

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…

- Alasdair Maclean

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…

- Alasdair Maclean

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 …

- Alasdair Maclean

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 …

- Alasdair Maclean