You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.