I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.