We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I’ve never tried this, and I don’t recommend it.)

Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish.

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.