I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

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.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

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!

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.