The mists, the house in the distance..."Ferry, I suggest would make a very good Maxim de Winter."Do you know, that's what my mother said. Isn't that funny?" He's grinning, pleased with this.But is that good or bad?"I don't know Oh..." The smile fades a bit "Perhaps it's bad. I think she just liked Laurence Olivier, especially in Rebecca where he's very d-d-dashing and precise Clipped voice and all that..." Laughs awkwardly "But that's Hitchcock, isn't it? Quality films Movies these days are so.. shallow Hitchcock's Vertigo, with Kim Novak and James Stewart Fantastic voice he had, always captivated me. People find him stiff, but I've always liked that gawky style What's the one where he's like, er.. a rabbit? Harry or something."It's Harvey But look, we should move on "Indeed. Do you want to..." – very self-effacing – "...talk about the album at all, anything like that?"I sure do. But first – your dad was a miner, and you once called yourself "an orchid born on a coal-tip...""Hur hur hur."When did you first know you were different? Out of place?"Oh, before I went to grammar school.

Back in Miss Swaddle's class."Fantastic name."Oh, yes." He gazes fondly away "She was incredible. Very tall." At this point, astonishingly, he stands and begins to sashay up and down, doing Miss Swaddle; nose in the air, very Nancy Cunard."She always wore spotless white plimsolls and long skirts to there [mid-calf] Very glamorous, looked like one of those Fifties models Eyes in the back of her head. She'd be writing on the board, then get the duster and whack you with it, a dead shot."She threw it?"Oh yeah, totally!" Laughs. "This is in the days when they used to clip children." Sits down, scratches his chin "I'm personally all for it Anyway, Miss Swaddle Got us writing essays.

I was a bit sad, used to write these really sad stories, and there was one in particular. She knelt by my desk and said, 'Where did that come from? You have such an imagination'. And I really just looked at her then [widens eyes boyishly] like my heroine."He goes for his nails again "I didn't feel I f-f-fitted in at all, otherwise And it was pretty much the same at grammar school. But when I got to university, there were a lot of people like me.