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.

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.

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've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

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