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

My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.

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.

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

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

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!'