At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

But it really took this long for me to be able to take a breather from it and come back to music which was always my first love.

But people dream about what we could do, and the dreamers are not really being given the opportunity to experiment.

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.

I kind of fell into music because it didn't require a lot of entry qualifications.

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

I'm actually more interested in the other half of the world, because I wouldn't like to be excluded from any of this technology.