Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.

I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

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.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

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.

Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.