The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.

It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!