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.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

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.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.