We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.