Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.