I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.