I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

There is good and bad in everyone.

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.