The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.

Can I finish my blasted story? We'll get to supernatural kindergarten later.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north