I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

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.

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

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

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.

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.