Quotes from Peter Frampton

You know me - I'm the road dog of road dogs.

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 used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

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've had the honor of sitting in with the Allmans at their Beacon shows a couple of times, and it just doesn't get better than that.

'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while.

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.

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.

I'm learning all the time. I've learned things like how to be a better person, better father, better husband.

I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!

I was petrified about 'I'm in You.' I couldn't wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

Detroit has always been a rock and roll audience for me and picked up on me and my performances long before a lot of other places in the country. I will never forget that. It's a home away from home. I love it.

I pile up the press clippings and send them off to my mother. She's got a scrapbook going back to when I was, like, eight years old.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

Most rock movies are never authentic - you'll have someone supposedly in 1958 playing a 1990 guitar, and a 1986 microphone.

Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

When you put the phone down at the concert, there's your 3-D, there's your HD.

Somewhere along the way, things got confused, and the pop-star side of my career got in the way of my musician side.

If there's ever a live record that deserved to be mixed in surround sound, it's 'Frampton Comes Alive.'

Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?

People love to play 'Baby, I Love Your Way' at their weddings. They even play it for births and deaths - whatever the occasion, it seems to fit. Over the years, it's been used in lots of movies, and it's been covered by other artists more than any of my songs. I've written a standard... which is pretty incredible to me.

Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.