I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.