The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you.

But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and contribute to something that people can enjoy.

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.