I don’t use the twang bar anymore. It’s become too popular.

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don’t want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

I’ve always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

In the past, I’d sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I’d know what sort of way a melody was going to go ’cause of the way he’d approach...

When you are in your 20’s and 30’s, you just want a hit record and you don’t really care how it happens.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it...

If a ballet dancer falls over, it’s knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don’t ask the names.

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

You’re looking at the Bee Gees right now.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece...

I don’t want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I’m doing with my hips, but it’s their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I’m a little bit...

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

I’ve had a wordless phase, and that’s still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

What is this? It’s music to get a brain seizure by.

The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.

Talk radio doesn’t need to be political.

I don’t find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

There are people I would like to work with. It’s a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can’t really circulate. So I...

I’d never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees’ sound. I’m very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I’ll be identified as a Bee Gee.

So, if we’re happy playing the songs we have written, for as long as we can, then that is sort of the proof that they’re good songs as well.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it’s increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

I’m obsessed with books.

I feel like I own the stage.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment – that’s escape.

I once ate a pile of brains this big.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

I never really did any disco dancing.

You can only sleep in one bed at a time.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

No, I enjoyed playing bass and still do.

In theory, I’d like to work in a group. But the group I’d like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I hadn’t accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn’t wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in… Maurice had no brain left. There wasn’t any activity...

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don’t. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have...

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women...

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it’s a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that...

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Those record companies don’t know what’s happening at all.

The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.

I’m not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I’m sorry that I’ve done a Neil Diamond song.