I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

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

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

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 was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.