Leadership is character in action.

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

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.

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"

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