We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

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

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

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