no, ididn�*t.s were very optimistic, and that's why on one of my albums, i include my mum and dad speaking, particularly on beyond skin, which was in the late �*90s, where they talk very optimistically about coming to england, and their optimism around, you know, the prospect of being immigrants to london. they desperately wanted to fit in? yeah, they did. see, what interests me about — and now, we're getting into your musical choices from an early age — what interests me is that you were very gifted, obviously, as a young child musician — you could play all sorts of instruments and do all sorts of things — but you gravitated towards the sitar, for example, which — you know, if you'd really wanted to fit in and just try to use music to assimilate as best you could, you'd have gone for the electric guitar maybe rather than the sitar. well, i already played electric guitar by that age. i mean, that was more when i was a teenager, a young teenager, i got into sitar and tabla. but i had also been to in