Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.

You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.

I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the charts and that was Nazareth. I stepped into another career and suddenly became a well-known producer.

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.