Kieran Hebden quotes:

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting and you don't need any record companies. The way I do everything comes from that, the impact of those two things.

I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions.

I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.

If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas.

I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there... I wanted to make something that was for the night.

It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

People ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.

People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.