I always think the audience should be part of the show.
Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.
If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.
I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.
I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own.
I carry my own tea, food, and Tabasco on the plane with me.
It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.
My dad worked on the Middlesbrough docks.
'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.
The Skynyrds and I go back to the '70s and the days and nights at the Hyatt House on Sunset in L.A., aka the Riot House.
With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.
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.
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 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.
Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.
In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.
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.
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.
When Free came together, there was a creative magic around us, something unique and different.
I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years.
I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.
Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
I come from a working-class family of seven children.
I was conscious of vocalists from an early age.
