Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

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

I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.

I don't think I've ever changed. I am only one person, it's just me. I'm confident and I'm quite happy with who I am, but it's my life and I'll be what I want.

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.