I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.