From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

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.

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldnt live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

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.

I'm not bitter, I'm bittersweet.

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.