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

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

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

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

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.

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.

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. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.