The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.