As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to be careful about the prayers that we chose and the music I wrote because I didn't want to offend either side.

I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.