I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

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

I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.