When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

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

You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.

I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.