Johnny Marr

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of_'Meat is Murder'. I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.