I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

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

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.