Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.
Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!
It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.
There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
I'm a cash flow guy. If it doesn't make me money today, forget about it.
Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.
There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
