What’s the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

There were more groups that made records and didn’t make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.

Anybody who thinks pop music’s easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn’t.

There’s no field of music which doesn’t have good ideas.

I couldn’t stay there. I still find Miami very hard, because from my dock I can see the hospital. I can’t stand there and look at it.

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent...

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Sometimes a little compromise isn’t a bad thing. You don’t need to be precious about it.

I had given up the guitar between ’75 and ’78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn’t advise anyone to do it.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice’s name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.

I’m not imprisoned within any particular style or category of music. I grew up in the be-bop culture or what people today call classic jazz.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we’ve gone in the right direction.

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He’s very underrated.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I’d played with before joining the ‘Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

I’m not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

A lot of times when we play in countries where English isn’t the first language we get accused of being melancholy and miserable.

I’m not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It’s such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

I think that after a year of Portishead I’ve become a little more sober.

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

When I was 20, I didn’t give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life.

Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

I left on the Saturday morning. The doctors were saying there was still a chance that they’d get him back. You hope against hope that they’re right.

We’re also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.

Unfortunately, in the current litigious climate I’m one of the very many artists who receive tapes and chucks them straight in the bin.

Sure I’m leaving the Bee Gees. I’m going into films.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn’t necessary.

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...