I was listening to music long before rock ‘n roll.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

Now I’m having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album – but I’m pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it’s meant I don’t drive a fancy...

I’ve gone through hell and back.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

No, we have our ups and downs, but we’re all very up at the moment.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express...

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I’m stupid.

The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn’t carried on – I don’t know if I would...

I want to make a pop album – something more upbeat than my stuff was in the ’90s.

I’m an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I’m quite sensitive, but I’m hyperactive too.

There’s a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn’t know what he was going on about.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together...

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and...

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

You’re only as big as your last hit.

I don’t know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist – you either are or you aren’t – and if you are you’ll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light,...

I consider everything I compose a gift.

And another thing: Stay responsive to any environment that comes along, and try to reflect what you feel in a wide variety of styles and songs.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and...

Old men do it better. We’re not so sensitive in certain areas.

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God’s...

I don’t make any money.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music...

There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.

Now that I’m staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I’m less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for...

I’ve never written a book before.

I’m also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

So I’m known-and actually so I’m unknown, you know, or relatively unknown, such as the stuff in Africa and the whole experience I had there.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They...

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

I’ve got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don’t know what it does to you, I don’t really...

A nightmare is two bassists on stage.

I feel like I’m stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it’s always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

I don’t care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

Each song has its own secret that’s different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws...

I must say American radio is good in a way because for new groups, especially like English groups that’s how the interest picked up on us over here.