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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him. "

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

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

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

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

" The first record I bought was actually Booker T and the MG's 'Red Beans and Rice.' "

" 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.' "

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

" 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 what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding. "

" 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'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by blues: the idea was that you would jam on things, and you'd try things out. You took a journey, and you took a left turn, and you experimented live right there in the moment. "

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