Graham Coxon: I felt it this morning because I don't like curtains and the sun was very bright. It's about waking up and the morning is a very beautiful thing instead of a thing to be afraid of. It's nice to wake up and feel good, and know that the day before you were a decent person, you didn't act like an idiot in some club, rugby tackle the owner, and take your clothes off. You wake up with this kind of feeling of dread, and phone your friend and he'll go 'Oh Graham you know what you did' and I'm like 'Oh God, tell me then'. Horrible.

GC: There isn't really, it's kind of got it. Pedal steel guitars are incredible. I've always wanted to write one of those really little heartbreaker country songs about turning your back on God and your friends and your girl who's been so good to you; all that classic subject matter. And it's all true, I don't write any lies in my songs. I wrote that ('Mountain Of Regret') song really fast. It was strange, it was just there. Bob Dylan said once that he doesn't write songs, they're already written, he just has to take them out of the air. I never thought that about my own songs, but sometimes they do seem so easy and you kind of just pick them, like an apple.

GC: I haven't for a long time. I don't really wear the right sort of shoes anymore. I like skating, but I love motorbikes now. I prefer motorcyclists actually to skaters. The thing is if you've got a bike there's no snobbery, whereas if you get a skateboard you've got to deal with all these other skaters treating you like an utter shit.

GC: Have you ever tried to buy anything in a skateboard shop? It's a f***ing nightmare. It's like a test, you know, if you can put up with this flack for a year or two, then maybe we might treat you like a human being, you know, sell you a pair of shoes without making you feel like a one inch tall idiot. But in a motorbike shop, everyone's really nice to you.

GC: It's the same thing as skating, almost. You're very much in control of your own destiny on a bike. You're totally free and it just feels good. Kind of like skating does when you've got some trick wired and you can do it pretty regularly. Rolling away from doing some trick is a nice feeling. So it's the same kind of thing like the way you turned this corner nice and fast and you did it really well, and it's excellent.

GC: Yeah, I had a whole day driving round Kent and on the way back I thought I was gonna cry. You just have to put up with it. You start fidgeting, like when you're in a cinema and your bum goes numb. I hate that. When you get old and you get back problems you gotta get one of those great big squishy Harleys. That's what I'm gonna get. A huge big squishy bike that makes loads of noise and goes really slow.

GC: Ha, yeah! Well I am semi-retiring cos I bought somewhere in Kent. At the moment I can't commit to retiring 100%, I think I'll always have to have like a little ball of string that I can trace back to Camden.

GC: Yeah, I don't really go out there at night anymore cos it's too f***ing scary. Too much blood around. It's like a bloodbath at night, I mean, it's terrible! I went to see Billy and the Buffs play and I came out and there was police and this boy covered in blood and crying. God.

GC: I did a little watercolour. I really enjoy those psychedelic albums like Gong and 'The Land Of Graham Pink' by Caravan that'll have these beautiful little watercolours of rural stuff. I was kind of heading in that direction. There's bones at the bottom (of the sleeve) then trees, water, snow, sunlight, and then the universe. It's hippy shit almost, really, but it's kind of a spiritual thing. Like death isn't the end of the story.