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

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.

He was just so gorgeous, erotic, and intimidating at the same time, ” she said, grinning.

The moon's a crazy sweetheart.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.

Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?