I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

A garden is made of hope.

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.