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

I enjoy anything to do with music.

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 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.

It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked Deep Purple off as a name in Great Britain because it made all the newspapers. Everyone was writing about us. And there was some confusion as to what kind of band we were after that, which is why Deep Purple in Rock is such a hard unbending album of really furious hard heavy rock. Heavy metal hadn't been invented at that point.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.