I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Everyday was like a holiday allways something new always something different, but it was allways for someone else and never for me.

I took a lot of LSD over many years.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick’s organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely,...

I’ll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren’t so painful any more-not so raw or so new.

It’s a new day and new things are happening. There will be other ways for artists to sell their records and distribute their product.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man’s daughter would not understand blues.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

All you need is love.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

It was the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It’s a very subjective experience. And I’m loyal to that...

Everyone’s looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

At the end of the day, we’re just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

I’ve been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn’t know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about...

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he’s pure showbusiness.

When something is not good, it’s bad. Period.

We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend.

Even if you’re specific about the character of the song, it’s more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that’s the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it’s never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite...

Well, the stuff on the album we are a hundred per cent sure that we’ll never get sick of because that was a very careful selection process.

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we’ve always enjoyed doing it before. We don’t often get sensible offers to play in the...

I’ve never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

It’s also why I don’t print lyrics anymore. I figure if you can’t get the feeling across adequately with the song, then you’ve failed anyway.

I however don’t go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they’re about the exuberance of youth. That’s the sort of subliminal ideology.

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

Polydor used to release me at different times around the world. You get your royalty statement: sales here, here, but never over there!

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He’s overrated.

It wasn’t all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

The LSD situation is only a catalyst to the brain, as the brain has all that stuff anyway, because it’s the subconscious that comes out.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn’t ever have done in their youth.

I refuse to believe my brother is dead.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I’ve never got on with the British press because they’ve always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn’t concentrate on the...

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I’ll just record it there and then.

I’ve just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

When you’re around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn’t use my name.

I don’t do live things.