When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

Turn and face the strange.