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 just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis

I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.

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

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.

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.