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#1. As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.
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#2. I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.
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#3. I still use a lot of cut-ups, I physically cut-up pieces of paper and stick them all together on another piece of paper then I'll think, "Ah, that looks good," or shuffle them around a bit and then I'll photocopy it and then that's my lyrics.
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#4. Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.
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#5. Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm trying to make my solo shows something different altogether.
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#6. My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.
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#7. I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything.
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#8. I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.
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#9. I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.
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#10. I'm a bit of a hoarder, so I did tend to buy things and just hang on to them.
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#11. If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible things and other people come here and look at my record collection and go, "Ah, you can't possibly like that - how embarrassing!"
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#12. There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they know the specifications and everything, but they don't really get to know them.
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#13. Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.
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#14. I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me.
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#15. Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.
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#16. I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea in my head and then I'll pursue it 'til I get there.
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#17. I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.
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#18. I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.
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#19. I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!
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#20. When I only had one or two synthesisers you learn how to do everything on those things and you know them inside out. I think that's the best way to be with them.
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