I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

If you think that UFOs will come and save you, don't be fooled. The Nazis invented UFOs.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.

Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.