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" I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other. "

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" 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. "

Paul Rodgers

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Tough

" I loved the 'Free Spirit' tour and the guys who helped create the magic: Pete Bullick, Rich Newman, Ian Rowley and Gerard 'G' Louis. "

" 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. "

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

" When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity. "

" Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really. "

" I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park in London in 1967. It was kind of a blues thing going on, and he came up and said, 'I'd like to have a jam.' So he came up and jammed with me, and I just loved his playing right from the start. "

" I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records. "

Paul Rodgers

Play

Purple

" 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. "

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

Paul Rodgers

Food

Carry

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Of course I was a fan when I was a kid. That's what made me get into it, the whole rock n' roll fantasy. "

Paul Rodgers

Kid

Rock

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When Free came together, there was a creative magic around us, something unique and different. "

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

" 'That's How Strong My Love Is' carries a message that resonates with the broken-hearted, and most of us have been there. "

" 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. "

Paul Rodgers

People

Hard

" 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. "

" Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions. "