The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.

My words are my bullets.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.