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

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

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.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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 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.