Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.