Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, 'This stuff isn't doing anything.' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man.'

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

All things must pass.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!