I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

I'm basically a musician.

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.

Because there's so much stuff I don't release.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

All of the material for The Fine Line was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

Every time you choose to love you have also just chosen to die.

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Step by step the ladder is ascended.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

The nature of life is constant change. The world is not the same today as it was yesterday, and it will be different still tomorrow. We can be victims of that change, or we can proactively drive change.

I don't want to offend people.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong for the strength of one is the tongue and speech is mightier than all fighting

I don't like people who don't have opinions.