Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.
You can't allow your creative sessions to be dominated by miniscule editing processes.
You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.
Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.
Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.
When you sit there doing a film score for three months there's no time to experiment.
What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.
To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.
There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.
The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.
Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.
Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.
No, I'm a quite big believer in not being in the studio if I don't feel like being in there.
Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.
Music has always been so integral to my life. It's always been my work and my passion.
I've always been obsessed with contrast in records, and using harsher elements to make the quieter ones more powerful.
I've always lived in my head, which is very easy to do when you live and work in a city.
A night out isn't just chaos and hedonism. It can be beautiful as well and there's a sadness to the end of it.
It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically.
A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.
For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.
I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.
I went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.
I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and use it for many years.
I think there's a spiritual element to dancing in general. There's a reason why in every culture, dancing seems to be in our DNA.
I love that tension between machine sounds and organic sounds, and also the contrast between abrasive sounds and soft sounds.
