I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

I was a very young mod. The older mods at school used to like me because I brought in a copy of Mad magazine every week and let them read it. I think Mad magazine is the biggest influence in my life. At the age of ten, I decided I was going to have a band, one of the best in the country.

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.