I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.

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

People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

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

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