Roy Wood

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we…

— Roy Wood

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after…

— Roy Wood

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a…

— Roy Wood

Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the…

— Roy Wood

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

— Roy Wood

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

— Roy Wood

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the…

— Roy Wood

We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having…

— Roy Wood

Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently…

— Roy Wood

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

— Roy Wood

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to…

— Roy Wood

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the…

— Roy Wood

When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way.…

— Roy Wood

I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

— Roy Wood

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the…

— Roy Wood

I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible…

— Roy Wood