I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
There were personality clashes in Free, really. I think it's as simple as that; I think we felt we weren't leaving each other enough… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park in London… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Free got famous fast, and it was a shock. You're working towards it, and when you suddenly get it with bells on, it is… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Without music in schools' curriculum, there is a void for young people to express, explore, and experience music. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, 'Who is the biggest rock band in the world?' The answer was undoubtedly Led… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image