I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.