Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

All dancing is a replacement for sex.