I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.

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

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.