I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

The gigs I enjoy are the ones where I'm so angry and paranoid, and I hate the audience so much, that I put everything into it to feed off the aggressive side of it. I don't actually hate the fans but when I'm feeling angry, pissed off, and full of hate, it's a good gig for me.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.