My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.
My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.
That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.
Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder.
So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.