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

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.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

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

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.