I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.