If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be. . .

Watching crap daytime TV or playing the guitar.

I wish people would take more notice of. . .

Detail. With music, for example, take the artists that sell millions and compare it to the effort I put in and attention to detail that I use - I don't think people know the difference. Everybody is satisfied with nonsense. I don't understand why so many are prepared to stand in a line and be judged by Simon Cowell.

The most surprising thing to happen to me was. . .

Playing on stage with Bruce Springsteen (right) at Carnegie Hall. . . The whole night was supposed to be a tribute to his life.

Nobody knew Bruce would be there. He was my hero when I was 15 or 16 just at the point when everyone in school hated him.

A common misconception of me is. . .

That I'm scruffy. . . I might wear a woolly hat and have a beard but Johnny Depp looks like that sometimes and they don't call him scruffy and most of my clothes are expensive.

I'm good at. . . [Whispers] nothing.

But I'm very bad at. . . Decision-making.

The best age to be is . . .

Ten. According to the Trivial Pursuit science and nature category it's the optimum point in life.

In a nutshell, my philosophy is this:

To attempt to do something fulfilling with one's life and not to trample on anyone else.