As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.

I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.