My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

Just because you can make an album on a laptop computer in your back bedroom doesn't mean it's going to be any good. Like any 'product', it has to come from a good original idea. There are no shortcuts!

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

To me, NOTHING is 'new'.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).