I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

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.

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.