I drive/ride … a little silver Subaru.
If I have time to myself … I play golf. Apparently, Iggy Pop and Nick Cave play too, they just don’t admit to it.
You wouldn’t know it but I’m very good at … packing. Suitcases, car boots, anything.
You may not know it but I’m very bad at … typing. I actually stayed in practising instead of going down to the hotel bar last night!
A book that changed me … Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, which I read in my late teens. It was the first book I really enjoyed reading.
Comfort eating … Mushroom risotto.
Movie heaven … Gosford Park. My wife and I are Robert Altman fans in general, but this was sublime, especially coming so late in his career.
My biggest regret … I regret that we LC & the Commotions didn’t enjoy our success more at the time, and also that I invested so much of my earnings back into my career when I should have taken the money and run.
When I was a child I wanted to be …
George Best. I liked his style, though I supported Chelsea, aged 11, because the United fans beat me up for wearing Marc Bolan-style trousers.
All my money goes on … eBay golf trading. I can’t stop collecting golf clubs.
I wish I’d never worn … a terrible Gaultier shirt with an eagle on the back as part of our awful cowboy chic obsession.
My favourite building … The UN building in New York: it’s like a big obelisk.
It’s not fashionable but I like … What, apart from golf!?
My favourite work of art … Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in the Prado.
The shop I can’t walk past … Muji – it costs less to buy new shirts from there than it does to dry clean your old ones.
The best invention ever … whisky.
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions’ Rattlesnakes 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition’ is out on 4 October. For more information on tour dates call 0870 400 0688
Publication: The Independent (London)
Publication date: 02/10/04