"There's a lot of personality to this album. A lot of really funny, sly lyrics. Slyly dirty lyrics. I didn't know Prince Buster whatsoever but a guy I did an interview with in Australia gave me a CDR, it was back when you shared CDRs, and this CDR had a bunch of albums on it, including the first Deerhunter record I ever heard and then this album. I kind of didn't think that any of this music would be good but I imported it anyway and I just started listening and then slowly every now and then something would reveal itself and this was one of the two that really had a huge impact. It's a fun and funny record. It's not heavy but it's very cool. "

"The ones that define metal to me? It all goes back to Motorhead and No Sleep Till Hammersmith. That was the epitome of balls-out, letting-it-go rifforama. But when it comes to classic heavy metal, Judas Priest’s Sad Wings Of Destiny is definitely one of the all-time great opuses. Hearing Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing’s unison guitar playing and hearing Rob Halford let rip… who sings like that? Nobody. I was so entranced by that band and everything about them, that I went to a hat store and bought a Fedora because Glenn Tipton was wearing one on the back of Sad Wings… I have curly hair so hats don’t stay on so well. It didn’t last very long (laughs)"

"The classic Led Zeppelin record. Again I got into that much later, 1995 or something. A guy who used to work at our studio was really into them. 'Stairway To Heaven' I knew because we used to play that at our guitar club. They were almost a precursor to The Sex Pistols, except they were better musicians, it was just very heavy rock & roll. We never had a synth club at school. What happened was when Depeche started I was playing guitar, Fletcher was playing bass and we had a drum machine. Then all these electronic bands started like Gary Numan and OMD, and we thought, ""you know what, maybe we can enter into that world instead"". Our guitar playing wasn't up to scratch, probably."