"What year was Blue Velvet? It was ’86, wasn’t it? So I was 15 when it came out and my parents were away for the summer, and they’d left me in the house alone. I got hold of a VHS copy of Blue Velvet, and I started watching it, and I couldn’t stop, and I got to the end of it, and rewound it, and played it again and again, 16 times over. And I watched it at least twice a day, every day, for that entire summer. You can see perhaps why obsessive behavior scares me. And it just blew my mind. I knew that cinema could be poetic, but I never had before understood that it could be poetic in that way, in such a raw and visceral way. And again, scared the living crap out of me. So there seems to be a theme running through here."

"Nobody can underestimate the world changing impact that The Beatles had on my generation. It was so powerful and revolutionary. It enabled us all to see the possibility of picking up a guitar and expressing ourselves in any way you wanted. And they were the pioneers of change and innovation. They were symbolic in the sense that we were all looking for something new and they provided it. When I heard Please Please Me, it was like it was from another world. This album represents the beginning, when they had been playing clubs and were first capturing that creative energy and raw vocals. This was the bare naked, early origin of many of these artists in this piece of music and I loved it. Of course, they went on to do many things after that, but this was the kernel, the seed of what they were to do later."