My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

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.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

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.