It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

Sacrifice - the future has it´s price, and today is only yesterday's tomorrow.

There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

In every heart a waterfall of love is primed to shower the world.

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

[Being a celebrity] In a word, it's terrible. In two words...Really terrible.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.