It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.

As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Blues was made for the recessed.