Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.

I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.

If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.