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

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

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

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

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.