Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.

You can’t be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

I suppose what I mean is, I never felt like I was part of a gang. No, that’s the wrong word. Part of a MOVEMENT! That’s it. It feels like there’s a swirling, shining wind...

Gran follows recipes by looking at picture—to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

There are some moments you feel like you’ll remember forever. Rare, still moments when everything is NOW, as if everything has been stopped and hushed so that you can take it all in. When things...

On my website there’s a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: “The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world...