Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.