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

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.

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

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.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

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