I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Let there be more darkness

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.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

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.