Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.

In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

Justice without mercy is tyranny

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.