When we formed Bad Company, I looked around and asked, ‘Who is the biggest rock band in the world?’ The answer was undoubtedly Led Zeppelin. Peter Grant was their manager, so we got him to work with us. That made the difference for Bad Company. Paul Rodgers Read Quote
In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America. Paul Rodgers Read Quote
I liked the 12-bar blues because everybody could play it, but they could also play it their own way, and they could express their own emotions using that as a structure. Paul Rodgers Read Quote
The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free’s ‘All Right Now,’ which I’m often asked about. It’s that sort of song. Paul Rodgers Read Quote
It’s important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing. Paul Rodgers Read Quote
I got the idea for the song ‘Bad Company’ when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded of an old Victorian picture that I’d once seen, and it said, ‘Beware of bad company.’ So I sat down at the piano and started to write the song. Paul Rodgers Read Quote
A song like ‘Shooting Star’ – the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, ‘Wow, there’s a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.’ Paul Rodgers Read Quote
Once I’d become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it’s such a great feeling. Paul Rodgers Read Quote
I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it’s out there. Paul Rodgers Read Quote
