My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I am quite fussy about clothes.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?