Robert Del Naja

I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me out.

We resurrect 'Mezzanine' with a promise that we can break free from the data of the past and escape the feedback loops.

When you’re on tour. there’s a contract between you and the audience: do what you want, as long as you do what we want. You’re having to play with the past at every gig."

After touring an album, you have this strange void that follows it, where you feel slightly displaced, like you've just finished with the circus and you've got to find a new job. You think, OK, what shall we do next.

It’s good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what’s going on. But that’s not the motivator: if I was a political person, I’d have gone into politics."

Rumours of me being Banksy are greatly exaggerated. We are all Banksy.

I guess that is what I remember of 'Mezzanine': it was a proper struggle.

I mean, I love buying albums, I’m obsessed, but now you just click ‘add’, don’t you? And when do you actually listen to anything? You know, unless you’re in the car or you’ve got time to do that, it’s just not the same world any more in terms of concentration."

In my opinion, Israel has the right to its security in as much as the Palestinians have the right to resist occupation. Israel has the power in this perpetual stalemate, as it also has the power to break it and begin a meaningful peace process.

If the EU and the US pressured Israel for change and forced the end of the blockade, we might get somewhere. That pressure should also come culturally, with from without and within.

I have total faith in the next generation. Looking at their response to climate change is really interesting and, again, that’s the power of social media at its best, to mobilise people."

I don’t think I’ve got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential."