Aphex Twin Quotes

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.

If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

I'm trying to work out more ways to involve my children, because the way I do stuff is so anti-kid, it's really boring. It's not fun. It is to me, but not to them, because they don't even know what I'm doing.

You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.

In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"

You change all the time. Everything changes you.

It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.

There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to one pitch in one ear, it's slightly different in the other. That's how your brain works out direction.

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.

It's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously - you get more of an honest reaction to what you've done.

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.

You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

If you're making things at home, there is no structure - no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK, that's the end of that period."

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

I'd like to have a dog with me.

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.