I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

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

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.