“I didn’t write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn’t.”

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

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

And we’d drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink… And now people don’t drink nearly as much, for good reason. We’re all a little wiser.

I don’t really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, really.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

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

Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that’s where I’m at.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We’re Gonna Make You a Star.

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

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.

So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn’t quite have the ability to carry them out.

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

I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.