The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

The hippy movement was a failure.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.