I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think that is the most important thing in any musician's life is to make sure you marry a woman who will be understanding of the time you will put in to the music.

Those who have got into the habit of consuming music for free are very hard to shift. And frankly it's an argument for increasing the scale of court cases because at the moment, people still don't think it's going to be them.

I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

[Tapers, as I've said, I love you. Your cause is righteous. There is nothing wrong with offering audiophiles music in dense, memory-heavy formats that sound great when pumped through awesome speakers. But I implore you to make an effort to distribute your recordings in a medium of lesser fidelity, as well.] I think that if there's something you like, ... that you think ought to be there in a hundred years, deserves being part of the human heritage, you almost have a moral responsibility to see that it gets digitized and put in as many places as possible.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.