The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

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.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

It is a sin to be poor.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.