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

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" 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.' "

" 'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am proud to be a Canuck. "

" I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was 17, and it was my first summer in London as a professional singer. One hot, humid evening, I heard that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was playing in a blues club above a pub in Finsbury Park. I was flat broke and couldn't afford a ticket, so I went along just to stand outside and listen. "

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

" I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I come from a working-class family of seven children. "

" In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I left Free back in 1972, I didn't play 'All Right Now' until about 1996, when I was touring with Jason Bonham, and we were supporting the tribute record we had done to Muddy Waters. "

" I always think the audience should be part of the show. "

" 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. "