The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there's more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.