Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.
Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.
Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.