be honest, too many when I started listening to classical music as well to even think about being 'influenced' by them. They were just part of the sound in our heads. Heads also affected by everything else. Ian C: All our family lives were a mess, to be honest. It's not for me to talk about anyone else but I regarded my own family life as having been the most stable and middle class of the three of us, which in hindsight was pure navet because it's only as you get into your 30s and you look back at your childhood and youth that you attain the perspective to be able to think, "Jesus Christ. I can't believe I put up with that." I was bullied all the way through school for being a fatso and a weirdo - basically I was intelligent and ended up with a lot of thickos or inadequates and mediocrities (the most dangerous sort of people) - and when I look back at some of the interviews I was quite clearly disturbed by having gone through this and needed help. In my late 20s I eventually began the process of psychoanalysing myself by thinking long and hard about how things got to where they were but this was long before then. So I was genuinely miserable, as I think a lot of people are. I had been told by pretty much everyone I was talentless and would fail, including my own family, so the amount