In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.