Alan Parsons

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.