People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.

Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Measure your life not by its duration but by its contribution.

The sinner is saved by the Saviour.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

The living God is a God of justice and mercy and He will be satisfied with nothing less than a people in whom his justice and mercy are alive.

I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.