I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.