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As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'
I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.
There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.
Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.
I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?
At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!
It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
I don't actually like touring.
I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.
The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.
When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.
I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.
It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new
or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.
