To me, NOTHING is 'new'.

Just because you can make an album on a laptop computer in your back bedroom doesn't mean it's going to be any good. Like any 'product', it has to come from a good original idea. There are no shortcuts!

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music.