I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

Sometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.