Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!

I've been a long-distance father.

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.

I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.