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

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.