I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

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