Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I could write about really ultimate things. That's where I think all of us want to go, really. All the groups seem to be heading towards a kind of pop music that deals with ultimate things.

As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.