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" 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. "

Paul Rodgers

Identity

Own

Writing

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

" 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

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Purple

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions. "

" 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

" 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

Handle

Tough

" 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. "

Paul Rodgers

Want

You

" A lot of those early blues records and soul records were pretty much live. It was what it was, and they had goofs and mistakes, but it still kept its charm. We have to remember to keep the feel. It's so important. "

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

" One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

" There were personality clashes in Free, really. I think it's as simple as that; I think we felt we weren't leaving each other enough room to develop in our own way, and we were restricting each other. So we said, let's go different ways. "

" I am proud to be a Canuck. "

Paul Rodgers

I Am

Proud

" 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. "