Greg Lake

I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired. ”

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. ”

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show. ”

Unless you go forward then you are going back. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

The greatest music is made for love, not for money. ”

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. ”