The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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.
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.