The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.