Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.