I really wasn't into sports at an early age. I couldn't wait to get home from school and go straight to my bedroom and pick up the guitar and play it. It became an obsession with me. That's all I wanted to do was play guitar and learn every lick I heard on the radio.

'Frampton Comes Alive!' is the album I'll always be remembered for. I'm very proud of the music that's on it. Why it exploded the way it did and continues to live on are things that can't fully be explained.

Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.

Money never meant that much to me.

Most rock movies are never authentic - you'll have someone supposedly in 1958 playing a 1990 guitar, and a 1986 microphone.

I've always had a good time in bands, and when I wasn't having a good time, I left.

I have a soft spot for 'Wind of Change' because it was my first one, and it was a departure from Humble Pie - very much so. It showed me the spectrum of what I could do.

Performing live has been one of the most important opportunities I've been given, and I am lucky to share my music with so many of my amazing, loyal, and diverse fans.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

I've always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.

I pile up the press clippings and send them off to my mother. She's got a scrapbook going back to when I was, like, eight years old.

I've always loved to play live.

There's a place in England called Petticoat Lane, and... they always used to get the heavy albums, like, a week before. So I went down there and got it, and I went back home. I didn't come out of my room for about three days. I just played it nonstop... 'Sgt. Pepper's' was the best thing I'd ever heard in my life.

'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while.

You know me - I'm the road dog of road dogs.

A lot of people were moved to write after September 11th. It had to affect us all in a way.

Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'

I never thought I would do an all-acoustic tour or an all-acoustic album.

As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

Mistakes were made, so I learned by my mistakes.

I love everything to do with movies.

I'd sold more records than any other person in history with one album, at that point, in '76. It became a very scary place for me, because I didn't know whose advice to ask and lost my confidence in my own gut feelings about everything.

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

I love working with film, whether it's the technical side, the acting side, or the musical side.

This was the rule that I had when we made 'Frampton Comes Alive!': being known as a live performer, I'm not going to go into the studio and overdub.

The number of times that anything is overdubbed on 'Frampton Comes Alive!'... the rule was, if it didn't make it to the tape, then we can redo it because it needs to be done. If it made it to the tape, and it sounds good, we leave it. So nothing was overdubbed on that album at all that wasn't absolutely necessary.

I've always been very gadget-conscious.

I never gave up. I'm a fighter.

I believe I'm an artist that just shines live - it's just something that happens.

The '80s were a difficult period for me.

If one percent of the people who take iPad or iPhone videos of concerts watch them, I'd be very surprised.

The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

I am an oldies act - yes, I am - there's that part of me, but I am so much more than that.

I've never stopped making new music, and whether the audience wants to hear it or not, I'm going to play it. Because I'm an artist, and I create, and I've got new stuff.

I've been a huge Gregg Allman fan since first hearing the Brothers' live 'Fillmore' album.

I've had the honor of sitting in with the Allmans at their Beacon shows a couple of times, and it just doesn't get better than that.

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

Peace, love, and truth trump hate every time.

I'll always be remembered for 'Frampton Comes Alive!,' but I've got so much other work that I've done since that, that I feel it's almost like after 'Frampton Comes Alive!' ran its course, my career - I'll say it - 'Petered' out.

You can't listen to 'Frampton Comes Alive!' without smiling.

A pop star's career lasts 18 months.

Somewhere along the way, things got confused, and the pop-star side of my career got in the way of my musician side.

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.

I did more sessions than I remember doing. There were a lot of things in the Seventies that I played on that people keep reminding me about.

When you put the phone down at the concert, there's your 3-D, there's your HD.

My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.

The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media - Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all of them - all of the new available techniques to get to people. I think that you are your best publicist and record company and everything right now when starting out.