Quotes from Peter Frampton

I really wasn't into sports at an early age. I couldn't wait to get home from school and go straight to my bedroom and pick up the guitar and play it. It became an obsession with me. That's all I wanted to do was play guitar and learn every lick I heard on the radio.

I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I come from the Hank Marvin melodic upbringing. So blues, I loved, but I also liked jazz. Therefore, my style was more lyrical.

I used to jam with Steve Marriott of the Small Faces.

Everybody wants to be on the front cover of 'People' and 'Rolling Stone.'

I am an oldies act - yes, I am - there's that part of me, but I am so much more than that.

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media - Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all of them - all of the new available techniques to get to people. I think that you are your best publicist and record company and everything right now when starting out.

Some might say I didn't pay enough of my dues, and I think I've paid my dues.

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.

A pop star's career lasts 18 months.