There's a place in England called Petticoat Lane, and... they always used to get the heavy albums, like, a week before. So I went down there and got it, and I went back home. I didn't come out of my room for about three days. I just played it nonstop... 'Sgt. Pepper's' was the best thing I'd ever heard in my life.
You know me - I'm the road dog of road dogs.
A lot of people were moved to write after September 11th. It had to affect us all in a way.
Everybody wants to be on the front cover of 'People' and 'Rolling Stone.'
Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'
I never thought I would do an all-acoustic tour or an all-acoustic album.
As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.
I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.
Mistakes were made, so I learned by my mistakes.
I love everything to do with movies.
I'd sold more records than any other person in history with one album, at that point, in '76. It became a very scary place for me, because I didn't know whose advice to ask and lost my confidence in my own gut feelings about everything.
An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.
I love working with film, whether it's the technical side, the acting side, or the musical side.
This was the rule that I had when we made 'Frampton Comes Alive!': being known as a live performer, I'm not going to go into the studio and overdub.
The number of times that anything is overdubbed on 'Frampton Comes Alive!'... the rule was, if it didn't make it to the tape, then we can redo it because it needs to be done. If it made it to the tape, and it sounds good, we leave it. So nothing was overdubbed on that album at all that wasn't absolutely necessary.
I've always been very gadget-conscious.
I had so much out there, the world was going crazy about 'Comes Alive!' I didn't need to go and rush into something else. You're only as good as your last record, so don't put one out for a while.
I never gave up. I'm a fighter.
I believe I'm an artist that just shines live - it's just something that happens.
The '80s were a difficult period for me.
