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.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

Let there be more darkness

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.