It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.