“It makes you feel really comfortable when someone is like, I’m not going to touch what you’re doing.”

Which would have been a very interesting thing to have done, but we were very aware that we wanted a bizarre kind of production value on the record.

It was like, cool, that sounds like the right move.

It’s 210BPM gabber-style techno and 40BPM reggae in the same list and it’s like, yeah, they work.

We get real picky about frequencies. Put it on a tape, start on tape, and it’s kind of locked to how it sounds.

Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they’re like, ‘I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound’

You can’t just listen to The Smiths anymore. But then there are plenty of people that do only listen to five bands and six albums and that’s it.

People are like, ‘What do you mean you don’t listen to 115 different types of music?’.

The production pushes and pulls you as much as the song does. It’s almost more to do with the production value of how each bit was done as opposed to the actual track itself.

Do what you do and I’ll put it out, but as opposed to sticking it out in Dublin and in one shop in London, it’s going to go all over the world and you’ll have the backing of a PR team and whatever else you need.

Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.

My playlists are massively varied. There’s never a theme throughout, it’s never like everything is based in funk or based in reggae or whatever.

I think that you can’t fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That’s my focus.

Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.

Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.

I’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I asked them to sit down since I’d come to walk around. I didn’t want them doing me favours.

I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know?

I’m just a guy, doing okay. But I’m a happy guy doing okay.