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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

" When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving. "

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

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

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

" There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me. "

Paul Rodgers

Disco

You

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

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

" There's a lot of trickery that can go on in the studio, and there's a lot that one can do - none of which I am interested in even slightly. I mean, you can actually tune vocals and stuff like that, but it's so hideous, I can't believe it. "

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" 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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Kid

Rock

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions. "

" I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together. "

" One overindulges when you're younger, and you pay the price in later years. But I always realized how important it was for me to take care of myself and my voice if I was gonna have a voice when I was older. "

Paul Rodgers

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Care

" 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. "

Paul Rodgers

Emotions

Kind

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

" 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. "

" 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. "