Greg Lake

“When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.”

“As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.”

“I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.”

“I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.”

“I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.”

“When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.”

“Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.”

“It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.”

“I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.”

“What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.”