I Was Not A Great Guitarist, So

Touring Is What You Make It. I Like To Organise As Much As Possible Myself.

Walk The Lines Of Nature's Palm Crossed With Silver And With Gold.

There's Always Going To Be A Little Bit Of Autobiographical Content To Everything. It's How You Lend Some Authority To What You Write - You Give It That Weight By Drawing On Your Direct Experiences And Indirect Experiences From People That You Know Well, Or A Little.

I Suppose When I Started Playing Guitar, It Was The Means To An End. I Never Thought Of Myself As A Fully Fledged Guitar Instrumentalist. And My Early Excursions On The Electric Guitar Were Curtailed When Eric Clapton Came On The Scene, And I Decided I Was Never Going To Be In The Same Arena As A Clapton Or A Peter Green.

In Most Cases, My Favorite Jethro Tull Songs Will Be Determined By How I Feel About Them As Live Performance Songs, Not By The Recorded Identity.