When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.

Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.

I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.

The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.