It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.