A biography for Chris Reahasn’t been written yet.
“You do some crazy things when you're young.”
“I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals.”
“I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'”
“Rather than missing home when I'm on tour, I miss tour when I'm at home.”
“Once I faced the fact I was going to deal with illness for the rest of my life, I got on with what I really wanted to do.”
“The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.”
“Rock n' roll was my art school. For many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing, it was the only thing: the only avenue of creativity available for them.”
“It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.”
“'Fool If You Think It's Over' is still the only song I've ever not played guitar on, but it just so happened to be my first single, and it just so happened to be a massive hit. It was in the U.S. Top 10 for seven weeks.”
“In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'”
“I feel I've had three careers in one, really. There was the 'Benny Santini' stuff; that came with a general sense of, 'Who the hell is he?' And then there was 'The Road To Hell' stuff, and now there's the blues stuff.”
“You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.”