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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were forever arranging these parties for artists. As a result, they didn't have to play that many records.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

Our parents were musicians.

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.