109 Quotes by Ian Gillan

For a rock band, I didn't see the point in live albums. To my mind, you've got to be there.

Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've got the emotional conflict within any group that you're not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.

I don't think we were anti-commercial. But we were anti-contrivance, and like Zeppelin, we found dignity through the music we were playing.

It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.

When you think about it, we sold about 120 million records, which relates to about £1.2 billion in the U.K. economy. We've seen very little of that.

I have got a good imagination.

Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV as the enemy.

Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.

I don't think happiness comes with money, but if you are hungry, you can't be as happy as if you aren't hungry.