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.

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.

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.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.

There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton