Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or three days. Maybe those were the days we had to walk around the summit of Vesuvius, and we went around to the sulfur pits where the ground is bubbling. It's near here. It's fantastic.