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

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

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.