There's a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they're released and the rest of it is procrastination.
I remember being given a demo of the âWorld Wide Webâ at Peter Gabrielâs studio in the early 90s, and I had zero comprehension that I was staring into the future. I was just happy with my pager and teletext on the TV.
As human beings, we create belief systems that make us feel happy with the choices we make. Youâd have a lot of unhappy people regretting everything if they didnât create the belief system in which they could explain all their choices and feel like theyâve done the right thing.
When you look at Banksy's work as a catalogue of ideas, it's undeniably brilliant. Going back to my days doing stencil work back in the 80s I knew that it wasn't exactly the most demanding work: it's like printing, but then Warhol was a printer.
I've always been interested in Catholic iconography. My dad's from Naples and I was brought up in a Roman Catholic school.
Itâs been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but itâs strange to think that human behaviour hasnât really changed at all since that legend was created.