What's your favourite musical gadget?

That would be the Giga Studio, which is fantastic. It's a PC programme - and I'm a Mac person, so it even got me over to the PC - and it's the most powerful thing out there.

If any music buffs are out there, that's a really cool thing. It's like having 10 Emulators (sound samplers) in one little PC programme. Really cool stuff, really powerful, lots of great sounds. Except... my third machine crashed today and I can't get the stupid thing to work, so it's good up to a point, yeah. Do you know a PC expert? Seriously, it's fried. Tomorrow I've got to find someone [to fix it].

What's the weirdest sound you have ever sampled?

That would probably be a toy from my daughter, from when she was about two years old. You put a little coin in the top and it springs out of the bottom and sort of goes "booooong".

Sample that, play it down low and it's absolutely frightening. It was great, it was a cool sound. Nothing like custom samples.