It's the irrational things that interest me.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

I didn't have a record player.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.