If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Stick to your instincts.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.