Well, I like the idea of seeing every piece of music as fluid. I see the tracks as places almost, structures you can inhabit and explore.
The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.
I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.
Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see what effect it has, without any aforethought.
If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right light... it's essential.
I prefer a long day of starting in the morning over working late into the night.
The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I don't remember many of the names of specific tracks - they were just kind of early acid house things.
I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for me to continue with it.
I'm very impulsive and I always had a belief in instinct leading the way.
I went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.
I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.
I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.
Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite a long way towards helping insomnia.
I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.
I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.
I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.
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.
No, I'm a quite big believer in not being in the studio if I don't feel like being in there.
I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.
What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.
