I always read the papers, the political bits.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'