Every time I come off stage, I always have a piece and crisps and a cup of tea. I call it a piece and crisps because I'm Scottish, so basically for your readers that's a crisp sandwich. Two slices of bread, proper butter you can't have crappy butter and a pack of crisps and squeeze it down. I have that everywhere apart from when we get to France. Then it's baguettes. Because then you're getting the good shit.
Everybody in my family cooks; it has just gone generation after generation. One of my grandmothers was French and the other one was Irish, so it was all about food and sitting down at a table. And both sets of grandparents were like: If you don't try it, you can't have an opinion on it. That sounds silly, but it has really moulded me in my life: I will not have an opinion on something unless I know about it.
It's really funny that two out of three of us became songwriters because there was a bus stop through the gate and we would eat a sandwich and my grandad would say: OK, tell me that person's story. So we used to have to take turns at looking at someone and you had to tell a story about the person or where they were going.
Bryn and I have a garden in Wales that supplies the fruit and veg to our restaurants. We have a gardener, Gareth, who looks after it, but we get up there when we can and I absolutely love it.
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