Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body.

If winter comes can spring be far behind?

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.