I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets. Roy Harper More Quotes by Roy Harper More Quotes From Roy Harper I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think. Roy Harper stand think long religion At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking. Roy Harper grow me school thinking As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio. Roy Harper child music age listening As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it. Roy Harper soon knew loved play