I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
My music has always been strong in melodic content.
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.
With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.