I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

I had another idea of getting a traveling medicine wagon with a dropdown side and traveling around England. That might sound crazy to you, but over there it's so rural you can do it. Just drop down the side and play through big battery amps and mixers and it can all be as temporary or as permanent as I want it to be.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.