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I Am A Lover Of All Sorts Of Different Music. I Love Blues And Every Piece Of Music That I Have Listened To Has Become An Influence.

I Don't Have A Very Disciplined Approach To Practicing Or Anything, But I Do Tend To Have A Guitar Around Most Of The Time, Which I Strum On Most Of The Day.

Pompeii Is An Extraordinary Place To Be Because It Was Preserved Exactly As It Was. There Are Many Other Sites. If You Visit Any Other Antiquity-type Sites Throughout The World, They're Very Damaged With What's Gone On Over The Centuries Since They Were Abandoned. But This One Was Just, Like, Sealed, So You're Looking At Rock Surfaces And The Carving Of Letters And Names In The Stones Looks Like It Was Done Yesterday.

Little Ideas Can Pop Into One's Head At Any Time, And If I'm Being Reasonably Efficient I've Got It Close Enough To Hand, Then I Pop That Little Tiny Moment Of A Few Seconds Down Onto A Tape And Then I Can Forget About It For... Years Sometimes.

Adrian Maben Came To Us With The Idea. And We Just Thought, "well, Why Not?" I Don't Think Any Of Us Thought It Would Be As Well Received And Last In People's Minds For As Long As It Did. All Credit To Him. It's His Idea [pink Floyd At Pompeii] And It Was Great.