There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

Fairy-tales are nice.

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter. I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.