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

Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality - the broader picture, if you will.

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

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

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

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. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. 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.

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