My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

When I was a teenager, I was very political.

My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it go again.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

It is immensely enjoyable to work for an album because there's a lot more creative freedom. In films sometimes, all that the makers care about is making the music commercially appealing.

I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.