Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

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

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.