Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.