Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

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

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

Songwriting's a weird game.

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.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.