In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

What's really great about social media is we have tremendous access, and there's a wealth of information about the people that we admire online.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

Cervical cancer doesn't discriminate by how much money you have. The disease affects so many - it's frightening.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.