Quotes from Denny Laine

The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to make it. That's where the record labels were. That's where the action was.

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!

I really like to do small venues. They're more intimate.

I was into all sorts of music as a kid. I was very curious about ethnic music and different styles. I loved Django Reinhardt. I loved Ella Fitzgerald. I was also influenced by all the crooners of the day, like Johnny Ray, Frankie Lane.

If you end up spending more time in the studio than you do on the road, that's not a good balance for me. Because I think when you're in the studio, you need to come off the road and go in the studio and that's when you're applying your best. That's when you've got the best attitude, best energy, all that stuff.

Wonderful Christmas Time' is a Christmas song but it was supposed to be an attempt at a traditional song.