I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.

I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.

It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.