I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

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

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

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

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

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

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