The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all 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.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.