There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don't even know what I'm looking for except a bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of that by just delving into the history.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.