I consider everything I compose a gift.

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

You've got to keep things flying.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

The look she gives me is priceless - shock mixed with pure pleasure. I make a note to put that look on her face as often as possible.

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing.