Lately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.
ROBERT PLANTI wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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I’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
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People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I’ve met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.
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I’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.
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I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.
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There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick – she couldn’t even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.
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I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
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Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
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It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
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I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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I know that bands that haven’t put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that’s not the achievement.
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