Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.