Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

You can have it all but how much do you want it?

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.