I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

I've always been fond of acoustic music.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.