The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or three days. Maybe those were the days we had to walk around the summit of Vesuvius, and we went around to the sulfur pits where the ground is bubbling. It's near here. It's fantastic.

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.