I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?

Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.