We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.