I bet you can't play slide piano.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it's quite amusing.

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.