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

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

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.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

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.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.