You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.