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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip. "

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

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" Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music. "

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