I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.