This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

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

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.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience