In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

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

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.

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