"30 seconds as a duo with Evan Parker realigned my atomic make up."
"The creative state is the most giving place I can imagine. It can also be the most frustrating."
"If you don't fucking know what you're talking about, it's okay to say nothing."
"I was messing about - which in turn became improvisation, of sorts."
"I find singing in the Irish language so freeing."
"Sometimes I am so nerdy and tyrannical about the smallest detail. My producer sometimes thinks it's madness."
"I believe in creative mixing. It's the ultimate personality stamp on a piece of music."
"There is a mystery about the inner part of a black hole. I wonder what it would be like to travel there."
"I’m not as gifted as Prince. But computers help fill the gaps."
"I can cry my eyes out while I’m writing some of my saddest songs."
"Producers with the most broken, fucked up computers tend to make the best beats."
"You can create a whole new track from just one second of an original."
"At first, when I set out to tackle the new album, it was a bit intimidating."
"Yes, I believe in the presence of spirituality in what I do."
"We've reached a point in Western experimental music where artists are incredibly self-conscious and verbose about where their work fits in."
"I often find myself looking ages for the right snare. It's a little bit like tinder."
"100% loving a track is the worst precondition for a great remix."
"When a song is released it feels like it’s born again to me."
"I've been fighting against my body for most of my 20s. Now I make music in order to … befriend it?"
A musician told me: "I can hear the mountains of your village in your music."
"Technology can be in service of creativity. But the concept of surprise is human."
"Sometimes, the seed of a song will haunt me. I have to get it done to have some peace of mind."
“I rarely think of starting a song at the beginning.”
"Whether collaborating or working independently – we can expand ‘who we are.’"
"Ultimately, I wanted to create something that broke away from the old order."
"Music is as an instrument of union. It is a tool to demolish mind veils."
"What is the creative state like? I don't know. In fact, I'm not sure I would even want to know."
"Gun violence, climate change, mental health, women’s right - I want to create music that gets people really discussing issues."
“So many great lines were written while I was taking a break to make a cup of tea!”
“The reason to collaborate is dangerous – to work with someone who is not ‘like’ you.”
"When I am improvising I am often in many states at once. A present-tense that has ghosts all over the place."
"To know when a track is finished, when it feels right - that's a hundred million $ emotion!"
"That’s beautiful - you are the adoptive mother of lost and found sounds!"
"Some of my lines can only be explained in hindsight. Some remain a mystery."
"Dancing translates another view of our experience in the world. It’s another kind of listening."
"I often need to retank after making a record. I need to live new experiences, read, walk, laugh, cry."
"Once I sit down at the piano, the music just pours out of me."
"Every time I start with an idea, it ends up becoming something completely different."
"Sound challenges our beliefs of how the universe is supposed to be."
"Sound travels from one body to another. And on its path it makes connections."
"If I can't achieve sufficient volume and sound pressure, the nature of the Merzbow experience changes."
"Africa is so rich in its native languages - and that’s a powerful thing!"
"It is fun to get lost for a while."
"We’re trying to create something spiritual in an agnostic sense."
Connected by Something Bigger
"We are god's creatures. Not selfmade egomaniacs."