I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

(The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.