Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

I think we've always been better live.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.