Paul Rodgers Quotes
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Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
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I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics.
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A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'
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I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.
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Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.
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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.
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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.
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There are just so many people making music out there. I've always promoted the idea that everybody needs to make music. I think the more music there is in the world, the better, but it does make it highly competitive.
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I always think the audience should be part of the show.
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Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
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Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.
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Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.
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When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that.
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The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.
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I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own.
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I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other.
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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.
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The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free's 'All Right Now,' which I'm often asked about. It's that sort of song.
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I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there.
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I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to.
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Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.
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I loved the 'Free Spirit' tour and the guys who helped create the magic: Pete Bullick, Rich Newman, Ian Rowley and Gerard 'G' Louis.
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As a performer, the thing that I love is to see people come together.
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When Free came together, there was a creative magic around us, something unique and different.