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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

The Seventies were just an interesting time for us because we were building the brand of the name but also varying the style of the music on each of the albums we did. Very creative time of us.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.