If it hadn't WORKED out professionally, I WOULD be teaching music theory and composition in a small COLLEGE somewhere and playing drums in a jazz TRIO at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.

I have a DEGREE in music, yeah, from the University of MONTANA. I studied VOICE and COMPOSITION and conducting and all that.

I've always had money because of my early success with CREAM, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the COMPOSITION rights MAKES a very big DIFFERENCE.

I was 16 when I got a SCHOLARSHIP to study classical COMPOSITION at a conservatory. By that time I had already LISTENED to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in CHURCH choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

I don't study films particularly. I PLAN to direct, but I'm not watching FILM - I watch the entire film to see how the story GOES, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's GOT to be my eye.

When I do a film score, I am BASICALLY NOTHING more than a fancy PENCIL for hire. I don't own any of the music when I am - it BELONGS to the film company - and likewise, when I am done, even if I COME up with something astounding that I may want to revisit... in the world of film composition, you can't do that.

From a very early period of my LIFE I have derived the HIGHEST ENJOYMENT from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of COMPOSITION.

Although I've MADE notes for things and EVEN written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the COMPLETE COMPOSITION of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty HOUSE.

Any drug that alters a FEMALE's hormonal COMPOSITION is a big deal. I have written about my journey with hormonal concoctions, and I assure you that they are NOTHING to be TAKEN lightly.

'Barsaat' is a romantic love song penned by Rashmi Virag. It is a song very CLOSE to my HEART - that's why we plan to release it first. Actually over so many years, whenever I used to make a COMPOSITION it would get selected for a movie. This TIME I was very determined to release it as an independent album and didn't give it for movies.