I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

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

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

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 into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.