I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

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?

I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.