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" 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. "

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" When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that. "

" Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much. "

" I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to. "

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" I have a lot of analog. I think a lot of people do. There are a lot of people that are re-discovering it. I still have a lot of my old records from back in the day. It's a joy to play things like Junior Wells' 'Hoodoo Man Blues,' and John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton. There's a warmth that you can still feel. "

" Free got famous fast, and it was a shock. You're working towards it, and when you suddenly get it with bells on, it is a bit much. I don't know how well I dealt with it. "

" 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. "

" Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing. "

" One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll. "

" I carry my own tea, food, and Tabasco on the plane with me. "

" 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. "

" We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by blues: the idea was that you would jam on things, and you'd try things out. You took a journey, and you took a left turn, and you experimented live right there in the moment. "

" I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics. "

" I didn't 'join' Queen. We played together and found a strong connection, did a TV show, and carried on - then I suddenly realised I'd been with these guys for four years. If I'd been called up and asked to join, I would have said no. "

" Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young. "

" A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.' "

" There is magic on earth. "

" I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding. "

" Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me. "

" I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there. "

" If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them. "

" I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.' "

" Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity. "

" With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones. "

" 'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome. "

" Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life. "

" The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free's 'All Right Now,' which I'm often asked about. It's that sort of song. "

" When I play solo, that's when I put it all together. I go through all of the songs that I've written wtih all of the different bands; that, for me, tells its own story, and the DVDs really enforce that. "

" The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.' "

" You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work. "