A biography for Steve Harrishasn’t been written yet.
“Once you start out, you are kind of finding out who you are, and then by the time you get to the second album or you've been touring a lot, doing live shows or whatever, the sound starts to shift slightly to something that is more the true essence of what the band really is.”
“I've tried lots of different guitars, including some Lados, and they felt great and were really well made, but the sound just seemed to lack richness in the bottom end. My main Precision is a '71, and I also have a '59 that I don't use very often.”
“It's about the music for us. Always has been. The bottom line is the music.”
“I may not expect every single show to sell out and I never take everything for granted, but you still know you're going to get a certain amount of people.”
“Whenever we play new material, eventually some of the songs become classics themselves. They can't become that unless you play them. Any new song is not going to go down as well as some of the old stuff, because obviously the old stuff the fans know inside out.”
“I feel like I've had a fantastic life and career with music, and I've worked very hard, but maybe I've had a bit of luck along the way.”
“Recording at Compass Point was really fantastic. When you're in the studio, you could be anywhere: It could be snowing outside or whatever. But it's great fun when you come out of the studio and are greeted by nice weather and good bars.”
“I find it natural to write on the bass, and a lot of people find that really odd.”
“The thing that annoys me is that I hate it when people charge bands to play with them. I hate that.”
“I have respect for anybody that has to go and do whatever they have to do to protect their country.”
“We built up a hardcore following, but we were really still semipro, gigging over long weekends and the like. So after EMI signed us, we packed in the day jobs because we had to make an album.”
“I mean, it took me a long while to realize that I wasn't gonna play football on a regular basis anymore. I still play once in a while, but that took me a long while to adjust.”
“As you get older it gets doubly hard to keep yourself fit and in shape.”
“The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that.”
“I tend not to look too much back; I tend to look forward. So, I suppose, I know, I've had probably most of my life, and there's less going forwards than there is going back, but I prefer to look in the future.”
“You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.”