Sondre Lerche

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.