Im not a very good cook. Im pretty good at making pasta, I like to make it from scratch, with flour and egg and all that kind of thing. Its my favourite food, and homemade pastas really cheap and nice and really quick to knock up. Get some flour, its like 100grams of flour and one egg per person, mix it in your hands together real fast, stick it in the machine, the manual machine, wind it through, get a load of spaghetti and youre off. Bit of seafood in there, bit of tomato sauce, whatever you want. I make ravioli as well. Out of a week I probably eat pasta four nights. Ive got a flat in London, Ive had it for a long time, but I havent actually had a chance to live in it much. Any time Ive got off I spend on holidays. Well, not holidays, but my girlfriend lives in Italy and I spend time with her family and stuff. Its really only in the last few weeks that Ive felt [the flat] was home Ive bought a few rugs and posters, its got a bit more personality to it now. My days recently at home in London, Ive been getting up every day and going to the IKEA store and buying loads of furniture and then coming back and building it all; and then you realize there are bits missing and go back again [laughs]. If you were to go into my flat youd see
well, youd have to walk up four flights of stairs to get there,
its on the top floor of a regular house in London. Ive got
a room thats full of maps: a map of the world, map of Italy, Map
of England, Map of Europe, and city maps of London, really detailed
maps- Ive got problems with direction [laughs]! And I like to
study maps to try and get an idea of where Ive been. Ive got a load of fish, tropical fish, I
like looking after them. A few of them always die when I go away on
tour [laughs], youve gotta come back and clean out the dead ones!
That sounds pretty rough doesnt it?! No Ive got an automatic
feeder so that usually works. I dont think Id move away completely from London. But the truth is I want to move to New York, maybe next year, maybe next May. Ive always wanted to spend 6 months or a year living there, maybe write some songs, get inspired by the area and make the next album there. But generally, Ive moved house quite a lot from the age of 14, I was living with my mum and my nan and we used to move house every six months, so I kind of got used to moving. I kind of like change, so whenever I feel grounded I get the desire to move on quite quickly. Has this helped me cope with touring? Well, I think being on tours not as difficult as people think it would be, because youre traveling around usually with your friends, and one of the things that makes you feel at home is your friends. You can feel at home in very faraway places, just cos youve got all your friends around you. I think thats quite a good thing. Kerrang - Jo Anderson |
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Magazine- 24 hours: Matthew Bellamy - May 2004
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