I'm not going to make it as an artist. I have the talent but not the demeanour, nurture or training. My work is all about pushing technical boundaries but as music it is too ungrounded - too unlimited. I am stylistically fickle and I'm not prepared to live on the bread line in the service of my art because what constitutes art to me develops on a daily basis.

By letting go of my pursuit of high art I have the potential to be happy. I can enjoy listening to music without bitterness or disappointment. I can be gentle and subtly expressive in my work instead of constantly trying to tap into a higher plane of sonic originality. I can breathe again.

I am still in the early stages of mourning this loss. I am intensely sad, but I'm not miserable - I am optimistic, I know this is for the best.

My place is to produce work like this. My real talent is in lifting artists' work to new places, taking things like this to this.

update
Just to clarify - I'm not stopping making music, no damn way!!! I'm just saying I'm focusing on being a producer rather than trying to be the artist from now on. Quincy Jones instead of Michael Jackson.