Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

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

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

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

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.

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