Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.