Richard D. James - better known as Aphex Twin - is one of electronic music's most celebrated artists, a singular creative force that's had a major influence on everyone from Thom Yorke and Björk to Skrillex and Frank Ocean. He also happens to be a massive piss-taker.
Whether he's launching blenders at fans, DJing with sandpaper, encoding hidden spectrographic images into tracks or grafting his face onto disturbing images of creepy children, James is renowned for his bizarre antics - and for telling a tall tale or two when he's interviewed by the press.
