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

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" Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true. "

" When I was in my teen years and in my 20s and even 60s, it was okay to drop everything and disappear and become a road warrior for all those months. But after a while you get... y'know, one likes to have some home life. "

" I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure. "

" With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music. "

" I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own. "

" Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it. "

" 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. "

" The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings. "

" I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys. "

" I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes. "

" 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. "

" It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing. "

" 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. "

" With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.' "

" 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 got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I'd once seen, and it said, 'Beware of bad company.' So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song. "

" I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on. "

" 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. "

" When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving. "

" I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry. "

" If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy. "

" 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. "

" The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key. "

" 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. "

" I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life. "

" A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on. "

" There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment. "

" My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid. "

" I like to be in control of my own destiny. "

" 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. "