Little ideas can pop into one's head at any time, and if I'm being reasonably efficient I've got it close enough to hand, then I pop that little tiny moment of a few seconds down onto a tape and then I can forget about it for... years sometimes.

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

I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

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?

If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.