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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I just try to keep an open mind, and that's the way a lot of good things happen. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was conscious of vocalists from an early age. "

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

" I saw The Jeff Beck Group at the Marquee Club in 1967, when he was with Rod Stewart, and holy smokes, they were amazing. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" As a performer, the thing that I love is to see people come together. "

" I look at John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, guys who had a fantastic longevity, and I learned something from them. They didn't try to sell records. They weren't saying, 'Ok, what can I write, what can I do in the studio that will sell?' They were just doing their thing, and people picked up on it. I like the idea of that. "

" 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. "