“Once a musician, always a musician.”

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.

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.

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

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 do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

A lot of time I like to sing music that people can relate to, but not necessarily put them in a depressed mood.

Music is my one opportunity to let out how I’m feeling when I’m not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It’s just venting.

Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.

Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.

I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.