I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene...

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it’s head and I still...

It’s absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don’t want to emulate that.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn’t fit with expectation – I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

If we didn’t do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little...

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

Maintaining our standard; that’s our challenge day-in and day-out.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

I rocked the cradle of love.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

We set the stage worldwide to go into the new millenium. I have all the music. Carl Palmer loves the music, he wants to play it.

Four personalities are bound to clash.

My vocal style I haven’t tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.

And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without...

I’m pretty much below the radar of commercial visibility everywhere, though the US is indeed the place I’ve sadly most neglected.

I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren’t about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.

I don’t like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you....

I wouldn’t do go to another band.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we...

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just...

Celebrity and secrets don’t go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

There’s nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

If you’re a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King’s Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we’d be ready to go and really get it on for about an...

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the...

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

Because of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any...

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn’t tell it like it was.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven’t. I am grateful to them for that.

My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!

We’ll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was...

There’s no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I’m not; I’m cult level.