I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.

Guitar Player' was always the serious musician's magazine. They rarely catered to what was popular. They focused on innovative players.

I don't miss playing guitar anymore. I'm sure that's out of necessity, but I am grateful for so much more. I am surrounded by loving people, and I can still make music.

I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.

I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player's career.

I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.

I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream.