Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.