With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.'

I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own.

When I left Free back in 1972, I didn't play 'All Right Now' until about 1996, when I was touring with Jason Bonham, and we were supporting the tribute record we had done to Muddy Waters.

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

If not for music in my life as a young person, who knows where I would have focused my energy.

The Skynyrds and I go back to the '70s and the days and nights at the Hyatt House on Sunset in L.A., aka the Riot House.

I just try to keep an open mind, and that's the way a lot of good things happen.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.

I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park in London in 1967. It was kind of a blues thing going on, and he came up and said, 'I'd like to have a jam.' So he came up and jammed with me, and I just loved his playing right from the start.

I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.

I have a secret weapon. My wife Cynthia is very good at keeping me in shape. She's very good for me. She's the best thing that happened to me.

I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on.

I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.'

When I was in my teen years and in my 20s and even 60s, it was okay to drop everything and disappear and become a road warrior for all those months. But after a while you get... y'know, one likes to have some home life.

I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together.

Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.

Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music.

There is magic on earth.

Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him.

One overindulges when you're younger, and you pay the price in later years. But I always realized how important it was for me to take care of myself and my voice if I was gonna have a voice when I was older.

With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

When I play solo, that's when I put it all together. I go through all of the songs that I've written wtih all of the different bands; that, for me, tells its own story, and the DVDs really enforce that.

I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.

I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together.

I always think the audience should be part of the show.

The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter.

Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.

I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.

Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing.

A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.

In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.

One doesn't have to sit through exams and go to universities to play rock n' roll.

Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.

'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.

We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by blues: the idea was that you would jam on things, and you'd try things out. You took a journey, and you took a left turn, and you experimented live right there in the moment.

When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

Everyone is equal. Everyone has a place. No one is written off, because there is worth and goodness in every life... That is the Republican ideal. And if we won't defend it, who will?

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.