Being a musician is a noble profession.

There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.