Lee 'Scratch' Perry: ‘My pants are telepathic. Everything I wear is telepathic’

The musician, 82, on dreaming up songs, giving up drink and teaching Bob Marley how to be happyI don’t know where my songs come from. I dream them. My first musical memory is a song called Don’t Give the Old for the New. I didn’t hear it on the radio. I heard it in my head when I was little. Then I wrote it. Music is my rain. Music is my name. I’m a dreamer.Living in Switzerland is the high life. Riches and fucking and fame. I feel like Merlin the Magician. There is magic