We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right.

That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

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

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.