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I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
I was conscious of vocalists from an early age.
I come from a working-class family of seven children.
I find the more you analyze, the less you really know.
I always think the audience should be part of the show.
Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.
In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.
Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.
I carry my own tea, food, and Tabasco on the plane with me.
I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter.
Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects.
As a performer, the thing that I love is to see people come together.
I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own.
With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.
With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.
My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid.
Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.
I just try to keep an open mind, and that's the way a lot of good things happen.
I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.
The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.'
One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll.
I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.
It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.
If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.
If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.
When Free came together, there was a creative magic around us, something unique and different.
'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.
One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.
To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.
I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.
Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.
Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.
You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.
The Skynyrds and I go back to the '70s and the days and nights at the Hyatt House on Sunset in L.A., aka the Riot House.
I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years.
I saw The Jeff Beck Group at the Marquee Club in 1967, when he was with Rod Stewart, and holy smokes, they were amazing.
'That's How Strong My Love Is' carries a message that resonates with the broken-hearted, and most of us have been there.
Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it.
In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America.
I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.
I loved the 'Free Spirit' tour and the guys who helped create the magic: Pete Bullick, Rich Newman, Ian Rowley and Gerard 'G' Louis.
After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.
Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if it's all meaningless.
I have a secret weapon. My wife Cynthia is very good at keeping me in shape. She's very good for me. She's the best thing that happened to me.
Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him.