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

If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.

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

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.

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.

I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.