Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'

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

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.