As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.
I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.
I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
I was writing them when I was an amateur, but it wasn't until I discovered Randy Newman that I felt confident enough to write personal songs.
My mother died on New Year's Eve, in Newcastle, and I had go onstage afterwards.
That's always been a bugbear of mine over the years, the clash of self-expression versus the needs of the business.
That's where I heard Eric Burdon for the first time, when he was playing with the Pagans. I sat in with them and eventually joined them.
The Alan Price Combo's name was changed essentially because Ronan O'Rahilly said to me that he'd gone down to London and said that the Alan Price Combo was coming, and the name was considered very passe.
The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.
When I went back to the Savoy Hotel with Joan Baez, I proposed to her, just to get out of having to fly to Sweden the next day.
When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.
Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.
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