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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'

As soon as I get in a rhythm, I'm very hard to stop.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.