James Blake quotes:

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place."

We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.

I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.

The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.