It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

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

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

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

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.