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

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

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

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.