If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.