No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.