So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.