I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

Sacrifice - the future has it´s price, and today is only yesterday's tomorrow.

There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Bad is the new good - you've got my permission to stick that on one of your t-shirts.

Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.