Leadership is character in action.

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

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

Leadership is character in action.

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'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.

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