If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

I get influenced by stuff that isn't even music.

For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.