One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.