‘We even did it as reggae’: the Kooks on how they made Naive

‘Oh, people might like this’ … Luke Pritchard with the Kooks in 2006, the year of Naive’s release. Photograph: Dave Etheridge-Barnes/Getty Images

Luke Pritchard, vocals, guitar, songwriter

I wrote Naive when I was 15 or 16 – before we had the band – but I didn’t like it. I was quite a paranoid, unconfident kid and I had a relationship with someone who was getting into a world that I didn’t understand. The song is about the fear of someone doing something bad to you. The lyrics are real in some ways, but I was too young to have actually experienced that situation, so it was more me projecting my teenage fears. I’ve found myself in that situation since – it’s become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.