It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.
There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.
[last lines] Recruiter: [after Johnnie has brought back The General] Occupation? Johnnie Gray: Soldier!
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.
There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.
I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.
To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.
It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it.
A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
