I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.