To make art you need to be inspired.

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.

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.

Still...you turn me on

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

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

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.