Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.