A good video can make all the difference

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

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

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.

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

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.