Keith Emerson

“I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.”

“If they want a photograph, then just take it.”

“I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.”

“I've never written a book before.”

“They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.”

“We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.”

“If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.”

“My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.”

“I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.”

“I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.”

“There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.”

“Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.”

“At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.”

“I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.”

“I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.”

“The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!”

“You've got to keep things flying.”

“I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.”

“We can all put weight on or lose weight.”

“If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.”