I'm an example of someone who got a bit more focused as I got older.

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.

It's great to do something that makes your brain just switch to a different mode, and music can do that really powerfully.

When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.

You don't make this kind of music expecting to have to do TV press and stuff like that. I don't mind doing it, but it's a fairly underground type of music. You do it for the love of the music more than being a star or anything.

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.

I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a couple of words. It's the difficult part when you're writing things that are basically abstract.

I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.

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.

I prefer a long day of starting in the morning over working late into the night.

To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.

The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.

I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.

I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.

My own personality is fairly optimistic and generally very happy, but like everyone else I've been through difficult stuff, particularly in my teenage years, where I experienced enough melancholia to feed any number of electronic records.

If I've made something really serene... well, if everything is like that, it's like having too much icing on your cake. You need something else under it, some kind of grounding. It's like if you're making a film, you can't have only happy moments, or else they become meaningless.

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 went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.

I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible thing in the world just to play.

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.

I'm a massive catastrophist by nature.

For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.

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.

When I did 'Immunity,' even though I did a film score at the beginning and also at the end, I was left uninterrupted during the middle bit. I got a good year of just writing and focusing. That, to me, is when I make the best stuff.

Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

That's the thing with electronic music, you set up systems to bring in an accident, to bring in quirks you didn't choose, but you still will have had to set up systems.

I was guided into piano lessons and 'guided' is a nice way of saying 'forced.' I don't regret it, but I think music theory as a concept doesn't work.

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.

The track 'Open Eye Signal,' when you hear that choir sound come in, that's actually me singing but sped up and with huge reverb and overlayered harmonies.

Sometimes you can just record anything and slow it down hugely and you'll find all these hidden notes and frequencies that match up really nicely.

I don't really want to go into the world of production and I don't really want to produce other people particularly.

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

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.

Maybe I'm just stubborn about learning new things - I can't stand learning new programs - but any sound I can imagine, I can make with SoundForge. And I'm using the old version, like 4.5 from 1999. I use it for every sound.