We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.