I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

Jack Daniels makes us all puke.

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

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.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

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.