I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and more nowadays I'll have complete songs - chords, lyrics, a melody - and we'll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?

I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by... hair.