When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

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

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.