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I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I didn't study; I live.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.