I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!

Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing tracks, that's not the way I do things really.

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.