As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'

Music is my first love.

It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn’t come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, ‘Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.’ I wrote ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.

I’m still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

To me, making records isn’t work.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I’ve made a record to please myself.

I don’t actually like touring.

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I’ve always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

I try to find nice chord changes, that’s how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Live shows are fun – sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.