I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
Being real is what is important.
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
