‘The flames could be 4ft high. At one gig, my coat caught fire and I was running around with a burning arm’
I’d always loved flames. I don’t know if it’s anything to do with moving to London at the end of the war, when I was three and the East End was on fire. If you look into the centre of a blaze, you get a stillness in yourself. It’s like meditation, and that inspired me.
