Quotes from Aphex Twin

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

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

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.

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.

You change all the time. Everything changes you.

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

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

When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.

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

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