It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

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.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

My wife was a beautiful woman before we had children.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Yes, Jews - typically American Jews, typically vote democrat, I get that.

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!

Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

Criticism comes to those who stand out.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.