Quotes from Bonobo

My taste is developing constantly, and it goes in whatever direction it wants to go in - the music follows.

I've always wanted to do a big theater show in San Francisco.

You know, the one thing I've learnt or value from back in the day is the restraint and discipline you get when you're limited by technology and equipment.

Offsetting the sample position every time the sample hits will create more random movement in short samples.

I respond to creativity well when I'm outside and reacting to experiences, not inside a studio.

I always have trouble recording drums and double bass.

When I was 16 I was in a neo hardcore band called Finger Charge. I played the drums with my shirt off.

Ninja was able to survive its own hype and become a very strong label.

There's this kind of dialogue between African music and dance music, especially Moroccan stuff, because it's kind of ceremonial and has built-in repetition.

When I started touring and coming to San Francisco, especially, I felt the most at home in America, other than in New York.

Towards the end of touring 'The North Borders' I had a lot of personal stuff going on - family members who had died - and I was feeling displaced.

I record a lot of stuff on my phone when I'm out and about and regularly use the recordings in my tracks.

With something like 'Second Sun' it was something I'd never really done before. It has no drums and I think that was the first time I'd done this sort of instrumental, bass-less kind of piece.

The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

All my records feel like a diary of the time and headspace they were made in and 'Black Sands' documents this in real time for me. A transition of falling in love with beatmaking again. An appreciation of a place and time and an anticipation for what was going to happen next.

There was an immediate connection with the Bay Area from when I first came out years ago. Somehow, I always knew there would be. They embraced me as a sort of honorary San Franciscan for some reason.

When you're traveling, it's easy to ignore your situation. But once the dust settles, it catches up with you.

Whenever l've travelled l've found myself affected in conflicted ways. Sometimes the new experiences inspire a path of self discovery, but at other points those situations can highlight insecurities and bring about feelings of displacement.

My records are not informed by whether the music is going to work live. I just kind of make the music I want to make and worry about how to deconstruct it for a band after.

There were a lot of labels in the '90s that were fashionable for a time and then crashed.

With places like Spotify and YouTube broadcasting these days, you get a track made in San Francisco broadcasting in London moments later, so it's more global now.

Erykah Badu sang with me at a sold out show in San Francisco which was great.

I was in bands when I was younger, and that's a lot of the reason I started working solo - it was always a compromise.

Yeah, I'd definitely love to do some scores someday. I particularly love Hans Zimmer's work.