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

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

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 not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

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