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I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

The album's not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums.

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.