I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

I feel a blood moon rising" Neesa

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

Thug Life to me is dead.