What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make quite brutal adaptations of the material to make it work on stage. I don't always like doing that because sometimes you're shaving away the things that you actually quite like about them, the spontaneity of it.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.