It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.