I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!
What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.