The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
The more far-out artists, the better.
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
