I'm Pampered Like You Wouldn't Believe.

Jamaican Reggae Is The Style Of Music I Always Reach For When Ranting To Friends About How You Could Listen To One Style Of Music Exclusively For The Rest Of Your Life - And It Would All Be Great And Varied And Worth Hearing.

I Trust Microphones, Speakers And Recordings Less And Less, And No Longer Buy Into The Idea That I Can Recreate At Home, Or In My Earphones, The Experience Of Hearing Live Acoustic Instruments. The Orchestra Is Already A Set Of Speakers That React Differently To Each Player, Each Room And Each Concert - It's That High Level Of Uncertainly And Unrepeatability That I Like. The Music Is Just Soaked Into The Walls Of A Room Straight From The Instruments - And It's A One-off Deal. The Alternative - Left Speaker, Right Speaker - Is Kind Of A Compromise.

No, I Am Not Interested In Women Or Sex Or Anything.

I Fell In Love With Electronics, Which For Me Was The Terra Incognita, Because I Had Never Heard Such Sounds. If You'd Asked Me 50 Years Ago, I Would Have Said The Future Of Music Is Only Electronic, But I Would Have Been Wrong. I Learnt How To Produce Everything I Needed With Live Instrumentalists, So I Don't Need Electronics.

Right Now My Mind Is On The People Who Stole Our Instruments, And, Specifically, The Person With My Guitar, Which Will No Doubt End Its Days Having Green Day Songs Worked Out On It. A Better Fate Was Deserved - And While The Reverence Given To Guitars Annoys Me, I Shall Miss It.