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

I wasn't always this introverted.

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.

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.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.