“Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter.” — Paul Rodgers Quote

Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter.

I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.

Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if it's all meaningless.

Free got famous fast, and it was a shock. You're working towards it, and when you suddenly get it with bells on, it is a bit much. I don't know how well I dealt with it.

I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.'

When you're in the room with a singer or songwriter you're in the room with a stranger until you open up to each other.

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

I've never seen myself as a strictly political songwriter in a sense, but I think in the world that we live in, and with so much access to the Internet and stuff, I think it's difficult to avoid certain topics.

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.