I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.