We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.

I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Every race is totally different.