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I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.


Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.


Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.


I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.


In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.


It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.


Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.


The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.


There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.


I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.


You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.


I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.


Blues was made for the recessed.


From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.


It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.


OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.


Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.'


I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.


There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.


You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.