Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

I found myself in Zurich Airport. I'd done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That's the way they do it in Switzerland. And I'd had a bit of a late night with members of her band. And I was - my flight was delayed. And I was sitting in the airport, and I just came up with the idea. And by the time, we landed at Heathrow, I'd pretty much sort of got it.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because in the U.K., we don't - we think it's all a bit vulgar, you know, doing Christmas or cashing in on Christmas. And there's a word we have for it, which is naff. And it's not exactly uncool. It really sort of means kind of vulgar and a bit - not very stylish.

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.