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!

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.

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

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.

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.

If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.