Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

Unlike some people who love to go out, I love to stay home.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.