I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

Send not a Catt for Lard.

I have always been into music ever since I was a kid.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

Your success does not depend on the failure of others.

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.