Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.

I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

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

I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.