I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

No use wishing now for any other sin.

The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.