That’s what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I...

Put me on stage and I’m happy.

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I’m...

Santa Fe is a great place which people don’t get there often, but it’s like a unique place.

That’s me. I can be me a bit at home, but I’m kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a...

This kid’s excited because he’s with Bad Company and I’m excited because I’m with Chuck Berrys’ son.

It’s funny, when I’m not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company – or whatever- I’ve always written songs galore… a lot of stuff people don’t even hear.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I’ve always been that way in my playing, really.

I didn’t like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn’t try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like...

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

Since I’ve got on the Internet, it’s opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she’s an Internet widow.

I’m not a country picker, really – I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

The parrot’s so funny. He imitates me and I don’t even realize he’s doing it. I’m walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he’s said something I’ve said… it’s...

I’m ready for some rock ‘n’ roll action.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

I’ve had Range Rovers for a few years actually.

I’ve got a Range Rover. It’s brilliant actually but it’s manual.

I’ve never had a plan – it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.