Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.

Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.

You take the risk of being rejected.