I didn't have huge expectations for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' My previous album, 'Frampton,' had sold about 300,000 copies - a decent amount but not mind-blowing. There was talk at the label that maybe the live record could go gold. I was hoping we could do it, but I wasn't sure.

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 don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

I often explain it to people that if you listen to a Who record and then go see the Who live, it's like two different bands. That's how Humble Pie worked. We were definitely a lot more ferocious live because of the energy that the entire population of us had.

I would like to be No. 2 but never No. 1. When I was No. 1, all eyes were on me. No. 2 slips out the door quietly and makes another great record.

I think 'I'm in You' was lackluster and way too light.

I do live a simple existence.

When you don't have someone, you feel you want someone. Then when you do, it's nice to be single for one night.

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

People tell me they got married to 'Baby, I Love Your Way.' It's heart-warming - I've been part of so many people's lives.

I acted in 'Almost Famous.' My album 'Fingerprints' won a Grammy Award in 2007. Even more prestigious, as far as my kids were concerned, I appeared in episodes of 'The Simpsons' and 'Family Guy.'

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.

My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.

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

I did more sessions than I remember doing. There were a lot of things in the Seventies that I played on that people keep reminding me about.

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.

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

A pop star's career lasts 18 months.

You can't listen to 'Frampton Comes Alive!' without smiling.

I'll always be remembered for 'Frampton Comes Alive!,' but I've got so much other work that I've done since that, that I feel it's almost like after 'Frampton Comes Alive!' ran its course, my career - I'll say it - 'Petered' out.

Peace, love, and truth trump hate every time.

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

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.

I've been a huge Gregg Allman fan since first hearing the Brothers' live 'Fillmore' album.