It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

Etch out the future on your own design.

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

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.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

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

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.