I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.

If I weren't a writer, I think I might have thrown myself more enthusiastically into advertising. But, it's difficult to imagine being a diligent copywriter. It would be quite exasperating for me.

I'm going to be playing four songs, ... and the songs I play, I'm going to play lead guitar on.

We had to play our style, our way to win. Us keeping the lead a little helped us with our confidence.

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.