Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

For me, my entry point, when I was old enough, was the skinhead/suedehead thing, sort of like '70/'71. People didn't have much money - they would save up, or whatever - but everyone always dressed up. You'd go to a dance at the football club on a Thursday night and all of us kids - all of us from maybe like 12 to 16 - were all dressed up.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great.

The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.