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.

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.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

Blues was made for the recessed.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

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.