I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.