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.

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.

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.

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

The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...