Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.