I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?
I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.
I've grown a lot since my first record came out - even since 'Back II da Basics' was released in 2005.
I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
My time and my legacy with Dream Theater will always be a part of me. It's something I'll always be proud of.
My musical journey with A. R. Rahman is filled with personal milestones and realisations.
I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.
Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
The Seekers have done most things that you'd want to do and when we broke up in the '60s it was partly because we sort of felt we'd done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.
I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things that you have to have listened to at some point.
I've started to see records as just a snapshot, a portrait of where you were at at that time. And if you're comfortable with that, sometimes it's like an old high school year book picture - it makes you blush a little bit, but you gotta learn to really appreciate each stage of your life and where you're at.
We treat each album as our traces and our legacy.
I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, that don't really have to do anything with each other, but they're sort of archeological in my musical history.
The album is always definitely the goal, because I think that albums are like captures and bookmarks. After five or six of them, you can always go back and be like, 'Well, what was his first?'... I think an album really gives you a chance to make people feel something.
It's easier for me to remember things based on the releases of albums. The year is such an arbitrary thing.
The 'Colours Of My Life' album is literally a 50-year retrospective.
I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.
Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have.
Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.
I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of the best times in our lives together.
I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career.
