Your 2025 album, Wild Concerto, stars birds and animals as soloists; what animal do you think best represents you, and why?
The wolves of the Arctic Circle! Actually, no, no, no – the hyenas of the Skeleton Coast. Hyenas are very cool animals: they’re butt ugly, but they have extremely complex society, they’re very complex vocally, and they’re very strange animals. I don’t know whether I identify with them personally or not. OK, fuck that: let’s go back to the wolf, much more heroic.
You’ve been touring your in-conversation show – what is the most common question you get from audiences?
Someone always asks me about Spyro [1998 platformer Spyro The Dragon]. It’s a hugely successful game; they re-did it 20 years after they released it and it was a hit all over again. And it has a huge following related to the music specifically.
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