If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

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

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.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

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