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I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

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I've never written a book before.

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I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

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Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

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I'm probably too forgiving sometimes. You have to understand that when you have a commitment to do a tour, you have to keep everything on an up level.

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I consider everything I compose a gift.

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I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

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I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.

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They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

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At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

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I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

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I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

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My mother had all these scrap books she kept and the reviews, I was also fortunate to have a list of every gig I've ever played in my life.

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My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

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We set the stage worldwide to go into the new millenium. I have all the music. Carl Palmer loves the music, he wants to play it.

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We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

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What we're doing is a retrospective, a refined look at how far we've come in what's known as progressive music and investigate and explore that.

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I've gone through hell and back.

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