I don't think it's changed a great deal.
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
What you are saying too, is that it's not only what other people are doing, it's what I'm doing, what I'm feeling. It's a little bit selfish as well.
For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
I wouldn't say I worked with these people because I was looking for a particular vocal sound. I worked with them because I loved what they had done before-and because they really wanted to work with me.
I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
Last autumn I made a programme about the history of the Strauss family and of the waltz, which involved a trip to the beautiful city of Vienna.
I think that's one reason why football is so popular again - it's a game which the citizen can focus on, where the rules are defined.
I remember when I was a teenager, the epitome of success for us was Top of the Pops in those days, because we really had no idea.
Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments,and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved- and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.
People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.
I thought it would be good to keep Europe alone for a bit, so it's coming up to almost three years since I have played over there.
Most live albums aren't live, parts of them are, but I've always felt it was because bands hadn't attended to writing songs enough.
You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something-it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.
Whichever route they choose as long as they're doing it seriously and looking after their voices and training then they'll be fine.
We're both devastated. We've actually been in shock for the last few days since Maurice was taken ill, and so this has all gone too fast for us.
We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.
Well, I think it's kind of good to step out of the Sabbath banner, you know, and not go under the name of Black Sabbath or whatever.
Well, the stuff on the album we are a hundred per cent sure that we'll never get sick of because that was a very careful selection process.
There are a lot of producers coming out calling themselves interactive and a lot of them at the moment are being designated by the big companies.
To be able to experiment with new forms of distribution and technology comes naturally to the group and we're excited about the reaction we'll get.
The real world was just too real, and we didn't want to be a part of normal life. We wanted to create a magical world for the three of us.
We have a cafe up here where we live, we had it open for 3 years, and my wife was running it. But I sank so much money into it... we gave it a shot.
We tried to relocate, but it was so hard on short notice,
What is very enlightening for me right now is that I sense that I'm arriving at a place of peace with my writing that I've never experienced before.
I've been running since I was a little kid. My longest run this year was 30 miles. It was the day before the Boston Marathon. I called it Ken's Marathon.
I've never known anything but emotional turmoil... I go from day to day in a kind of frenzied state. I can't wait to do this, that and the other.
I've always had a 'take it or leave it' attitude to fame; I'm much more interested in what I'm doing, rather than in anything like that.
I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.
Seeing that made me understand how profound the drama of opera was and how music theatre is the most powerful audiovisual form there is.
People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.
Of course the song, Video became known as the first ever shown on MTV, so I am grateful for having made a bit of pop history there.
The one thing perhaps I do regret is not making more albums. I have written a lot of music that should be recorded... that will be recorded.
The oil price factor is the joker in the pack. Regardless of the type of aircraft, if oil prices dodge ahead, it will depress demand for air travel.
A possibility to create a melody you will remember and sing inside in your soul. this is what the music is for me, not the sound itself.
As a revolutionary and leader of people at the barricades, I failed. But as a person who inwardly revolts all the time, I'm a raging success.
As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.
You've got to very much be part of today's society and you've got to use 21st Century techniques to draw attention to what you believe in.
You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.
Also I haven't really heard that much criticism about my voice. Sitting here at the end of 30 years, I must be doing something right.
A lot of times when we play in countries where English isn't the first language we get accused of being melancholy and miserable.
It's especially great with Head Space because it's kind of like forming a band, I can bring on board some of my friends that I think are talented.
It was fun to sing somebody else's song.
It is worrying, but we feel as though our first album is a representation of our musical career of the first years up to this point.
It's also why I don't print lyrics anymore. I figure if you can't get the feeling across adequately with the song, then you've failed anyway.
It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.
It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.
Don't advertise to Boomers as though they're seniors. Talk to them about their interests but not their age.
That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choose to go off and do their own things.
It's a new day and new things are happening. There will be other ways for artists to sell their records and distribute their product.
I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.
It was a fourteen piece band and it was very easy to fill in those holes because there aren't any holes any more. They are cramping my style.
The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.
There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
I'm not imprisoned within any particular style or category of music. I grew up in the be-bop culture or what people today call classic jazz.
I left on the Saturday morning. The doctors were saying there was still a chance that they'd get him back. You hope against hope that they're right.
I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.
I'm actually more interested in the other half of the world, because I wouldn't like to be excluded from any of this technology.
In a way, my role now is to shift into the next set of tool, which is virtual reality and interactivity. That to me is very enticing.
I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.
I'll be arriving at the last possible minute and walking on stage raging and pillaging and then disappearing immediately afterwards.
I once ate a pile of brains this big.
In those days I don't' think they were even demos.
I refuse to believe my brother is dead.
I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
I haven't seen Victoria because I've been working and I missed the christening of her sons. But everything's cool on that front.
If you think back to the '70's, there were these new tools, with very few people using them in pop music. There's a real parallel with that now.
If you're Take That for example, you don't need to be seen in the studio. But they have their own fans, and their fans would like a way to get closer.
I had given up on the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.
But it really took this long for me to be able to take a breather from it and come back to music which was always my first love.
But you shouldn't forget what it's about - for a musician, it is about self-expression. If you can make it work in a band format, it's incredible.
Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together.
I couldn't stay there. I still find Miami very hard, because from my dock I can see the hospital. I can't stand there and look at it.
I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
I don't like doing gigs. We're pretty good at it, but it takes too much time and energy. Time and energy I'd rather spend on other things.
The true beauty of music is that it connects peopl. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.
The first Company concert was a single concert with a quartet who all knew each other, although they didn't play together regularly.
A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.