Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.