Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.