On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing and working out its details.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

I do understand the perspective of die-hard fans who complain that we don't play the same as the record, but at the same time I think fans are getting an amazing deal.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

Sometimes language is not enough.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.

I think where you play is important.

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

If Christianity is dull and boring, if it is a burden and not a blessing, then most likely we are involved in a project, not a Person - a system not a Savior, rules rather than a relationship.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

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.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love.

Having scored 298 and still hitting a six is something unimaginable and you need to be a genius for that.

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.