I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.
I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.
I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.
I went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.
I've tried to do every album in a different style, which is why I tend to leave a fair bit of time between each one.
To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.
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.
I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.
I'm a massive catastrophist by nature.
For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.
I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.
I love starting a track in one place and not knowing where it's going to end up.
Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.
Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.
When you sit there doing a film score for three months there's no time to experiment.
I would never advocate anyone doing anything without educating themselves and finding out exactly what they're in for.
As a teenager, you don't really have restraint.
I do believe there's a human right to experiment with your consciousness, as long as you're harming no one else.
Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.
I'm an example of someone who got a bit more focused as I got older.
I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.
Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.
It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.
I don't really want to go into the world of production and I don't really want to produce other people particularly.
I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.
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.
Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.
