Musician

Ever since I got a job in Imogen Heap's touring band when I was 17, there have been moments in my career that I can't quite believe really happened.

I'm very impulsive and I always had a belief in instinct leading the way.

My first ever show in America was opening for Coldplay at Madison Square Garden. Nobody in that audience could have known who I was. It was almost like it was an accident, like I was in someone else's dream.

I was drawn to music from a super early age. At school, my ego co-opted it to some degree and I would use it to gain some sort of social credibility.

The track 'Open Eye Signal,' when you hear that choir sound come in, that's actually me singing but sped up and with huge reverb and overlayered harmonies.

I love that tension between machine sounds and organic sounds, and also the contrast between abrasive sounds and soft sounds.

For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.

A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.

My first ever show in America was opening for Coldplay at Madison Square Garden. Nobody in that audience could have known who I was. It was almost like it was an accident, like I was in someone else's dream.

I don't really want to go into the world of production and I don't really want to produce other people particularly.

The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.

To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.

Some machine-y music is great, but you can apply any groove to any song now - there's literally a massive drop-down menu on most programs. And that's what takes the human being out of the process.

I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.

I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.

When I did 'Immunity,' even though I did a film score at the beginning and also at the end, I was left uninterrupted during the middle bit. I got a good year of just writing and focusing. That, to me, is when I make the best stuff.

I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.

I'm actually a big fan of turning off my phone and ignoring it for large chunks of the day.

That's the thing with electronic music, you set up systems to bring in an accident, to bring in quirks you didn't choose, but you still will have had to set up systems.

Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.