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.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.