"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

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"When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me."

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"I take sounds and change them into words."

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"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."

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"A part of me has become immortal, out of my control."

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