Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.