Denny Laine

“I'm not just a Sixties act.”

“Not that I got bored with it all, or I didn't like the people in The Moody Blues. I just wanted to go off and do other things purely because it was out there, you know. I'm kind of glad that I did and that I didn't just stick with one thing.”

“Band on the Run' was pretty significant for me because two of the guys didn't turn up to record it. It was just me and Paul. The two of us had to go into the studio and make that album ourselves. With Linda of course.”

“Brian Jones was a big friend of mine.”

“I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became The Moody Blues, what I would call a progressive blues band.”

“I don't have a normal job, so I don't consider retiring.”

“John Bonham was a good friend of mine. I knew him a bit as a kid. I hung out with him quite a lot.”

“I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.”

“Wonderful Christmas Time' is a Christmas song but it was supposed to be an attempt at a traditional song.”

“In the studio is one thing, but playing live is the important part, I think.”

“I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.”

“My fondest memories are of being hidden away in Scotland or Spain writing and working on songs for Wings.”

“Paul knew I could sing, write and play, and so he rang me. It knocked me sideways a little because I wasn't used to being a sidekick. That was the first time I'd been with a band with someone more famous than me.”

“Art is really more musical than it is visual.”

“Paul forced the Beatles to work a lot harder than they would have otherwise, and he did the same thing with Wings.”

“That's what I tend to do - get into a band, and then it gets busy... and you want to get away from it all again. That's what happened with the Moodies and Wings.”

“I wrote 'No Words' and 'Mull of Kintyre' with help from Paul. He was always like a big brother to me and a strong influence on my songwriting.”

“But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.”

“I'm not oriented by money, to be honest. Everybody thinks we're in the music business for money all of the time. But that's not true for me.”

“Music is progressive, you get out, you experiment with new people and you grow.”