Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.