When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

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.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.