It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.