I only put an album out every two or three years.

It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

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.

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

When recording, whatever you first think about, you come out with something totally different at the end of it. Whatever plans you have you throw away, because it's always going to end up sounding pretty different from what you initially thought of. I probably only had about five or six songs when I started, and it just sort of flowed from that.

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.