At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.

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.

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