I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

I'm a thinker not a talker.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.