Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'