Tom York

We went to university instead.

And why did you make that choice?

I don't know.

I don't know.

No, I do know.

It's like I felt like I really wanted to go and study art especially.

And I wanted, I didn't feel I was mentally ready to spend my life on tour.

And it was like actually the best decision I made because I did English and I did fine art and the art college thing just blew my mind.

And without that, those three years, I wouldn't have been creatively prepared for then what happened after.

We've got to go to the music now.

It's your fifth disc today, Tom.

Tell us about it.

Why have you chosen it?

Well, I feel like one of the things I've been thinking about on this desert island is when I first started thinking about what music to choose, obviously I gravitated towards weirdness and ambience and electronic music.

And then I realised, like, OK, hang on a minute.

I'm going to be on my own on a desert island.

I'm going to need human voices and I'm going to need the voices that really have helped me and Neil Young from that moment after that demo tape.

I bought After The Gold Rush, I took it home and it's always been one of my favourite records.

And this particular song, especially the lyrics, I remember just thinking, wow, someone's writing that?

still now blows my mind the words to this song after many years and going the circles of life I end up being asked to play a benefit concert of his and I agree to do it and the night before you go to his house and you hang out with all these other musicians who are doing it so me being me I'm not a particularly sociable kind of guy not very good in these situations