I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

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.

Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.

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.

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.

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