“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.

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Don’t do stuff that freaks him out, like what you’re doing now. Do something that makes him happy.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

For my 20th birthday in March, I’ll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science.

I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I’m doing and if I look at the whole scope from chemistry to biology to physics, it’s just the list is too long to mention just one and it’s not fair to the others.