It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

Savor the throne, but don’t mind the stool.

The living together is very important in a way. It’s important for writing. It wouldn’t be important if we were like just getting other people’s numbers together, we’d just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.

One of my problems is I’m not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I’ve always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we’ll drink our cup of laughter.

Don’t you know by now, luck don’t lead to anything or why you keep on moving.

If you call someone up on a mistake – if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something – you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.