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.

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 listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

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.

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 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.