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!

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

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

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.

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

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