The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

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.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.