Quotes from Jon Hopkins

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

I'm very impulsive and I always had a belief in instinct leading the way.

I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and use it for many years.

Music has always been so integral to my life. It's always been my work and my passion.

I really don't use that much stuff. I think it's good to know a few pieces of equipment very well, rather than learn new ones every time. I think it distracts from the writing process.

To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.

Sometimes I think elements of 'Open Eye Signal' are better live. I do this really crazy stuff at the end, but I don't know if it'd translate well into recording. It would probably sound a bit too extreme.

Overall, 'Singularity' has a certain lightness to it compared to 'Immunity.' It's less closed off; it doesn't have that claustrophobic sound.

Learning how to be calm and centered in any situation is a skill for life, whatever you do.

If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right light... it's essential.

What kind of music keeps its relevance? That's why I purposely try and avoid any particularly current trends in electronic music. I do actively stay away from the most popular rhythms of the moment. In six weeks' time, those will sound out-of-date.

I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.

When I was 23, I felt like I was further back than when I was 21. After two solo albums for this small indie label Just Music, they'd gotten no real profile. So I kind of turned away from the solo thing a bit.

What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

Singularity' goes through a process of purification and signification. If you listen to it, you can hear quite a chaotic and disruptive beginning and by the end, you're in such an opposite zone.

I'm actually a big fan of turning off my phone and ignoring it for large chunks of the day.

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

It sounds a bit pretentious, but I'm never really conscious of what I'm doing musically.

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

You don't make this kind of music expecting to have to do TV press and stuff like that. I don't mind doing it, but it's a fairly underground type of music. You do it for the love of the music more than being a star or anything.

My first ever show in America was opening for Coldplay at Madison Square Garden. Nobody in that audience could have known who I was. It was almost like it was an accident, like I was in someone else's dream.

I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.

I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.