I wasn’t ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It’s surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
There haven’t been many credible electronic covers records.
All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
If you repeat yourself, then I think you’re in danger of losing that fan base, because if you’re not interesting yourselves, you’re not interesting your audience.
You make one solo album, and some people swear you’re about to leave the band or there are creative differences.
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn’t a conscious thing. I didn’t consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
I didn’t expect us to be around after 25 years.
I didn’t write songs for a very long time.
I love being in the studio. If I’m at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It’s just something that I like to do.
I don’t write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
I think being in a band is probably the only job when you’re actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
I don’t like to think 10 years down the road.
If you took music out of my life, I don’t know what I’d do. It’s the one thing that I have a real passion for.
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
There’s something insane about this business – about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.
I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.