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

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

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.

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

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.