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.

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.

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

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

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

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