That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I didn't always want to be a dad.

It's nice to do nice things, innit? I'm a nice person, deep down, I do nice things all the time.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.