No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.