I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

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!

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.

Funny how the most beautiful people in the world aren't always the types to gloss the covers of magazines and yet most people spend their lives trying to turn heads.

My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.