When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

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

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

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