When you're young you want to show people what you can do, no matter what the cost. Whereas when you're older, and you realise that maybe a drum machine is better than you playing, then use the drum machine.

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 writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

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

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

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.