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

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.

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

I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am quite proud. There are a couple of tracks which in retrospect on which I now wish I had pushed the red button, however I'm sure this is true of any artist career that has spanned the number of years that mine has. I do not believe however that I have ever made a bad record and I have certainly never made a record to which I didn't give my complete commitment.

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.