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I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

Mick Ralphs

Guitar

Years

It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

Mick Ralphs

Son

Company

Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.

Mick Ralphs

People

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

Mick Ralphs

Action

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

Mick Ralphs

Home

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

Mick Ralphs

London

Right

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.