Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.