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.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

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.

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.

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.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

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