“Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they’re important.”

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

I see no end to the possibility and the potential of Adam Lambert. He’s a fabulous performer, and I think it would be very interesting to do something with him.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

If somebody’s going to represent our music live, I’d like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don’t really have those in England yet.

It is everyone’s prerogative to retire. But it’s like giving up on life as far as I’m concerned.

Once a musician, always a musician.

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

It’s amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I’ve never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.