You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction..

I came back from Japanese tour a broken man to find that one of my outside productions was very high in the charts and that was Nazareth. I stepped i….

No one enjoys being away from friends and family..

I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll..

You can't play bass in a vacuum..

I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me..

Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there ar….

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan..

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction..

If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented..

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outsi….

It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked Deep Purple off as a name in G….

I enjoy anything to do with music..