My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

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.

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

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

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

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

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

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

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 Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

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.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

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

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

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

We are always taking a hard look at how life was in the past in coming up with interesting subject matter for our various series, and remembering how much I used to want an encyclopedia as a kid made me realize wanting a set is very unlikely for teens today, and that conversation would be interesting.

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.

Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success.

Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

I haven't been with Vin for many years - is it 2004 now?

Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men.

The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.