The only criteria I have with every new album is to keep moving on from what I've done before.

You have to engage with the current palette of the world, and what that sounds like.

You can't live in the times that you live in and be exposed to all the new music that's happening, ignore it all, and carry on doing the same stuff as you were ten years ago.

I think nostalgia is kind of dangerous in music.

I like messing around with sounds.

In the very beginning, I kind of had this hip-hop, cut-and-paste approach to music. The first record, especially, was from looking at people like DJ Shadow and A Tribe Called Quest, and I think a phase that a lot of people go through when they start sampling is to go out and stamp on twigs and try to record that kind of stuff.