Ian Gillan

“I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.”

“Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you've...”

“Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and soul and God knows what. It's a vast range of expressions.”

“It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.”

“I love extended solos. I used to like them in the old days a lot, because it used to give me time to go to the pub for a drink.”

“The biggest income we make is from live performances, without any doubt. That's about a 4-to-1 ratio from anything else.”

“I grew up moving from one council flat to another and finished up in a three-bedroom semi-detached on a council estate in Cranford, a suburb of Hounslow. This was in the days when there was...”

“The thing to remember when you're re-recording pieces from the past is that you have to have respect for the original performances, recordings, and arrangements.”

“I've tried to avoid the rock & roll highway and have taken the scenic route. I think all the guys have been more concerned with the music and the band's legacy than with the commercial aspec...”

“Elvis's voice was unique. Like so many others, he had natural, technical ability, but there was something in the humanity of his voice, and his delivery.”

“One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.”

“There's a wonderful woodland, spiritual song I wrote in Undercliff in Lyme Regis, and I used to walk up there with my dog and always come back with an idea.”