People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

I hate heroin. It killed off a lot of my generation. It killed off a lot of my friends. Now this generation is getting killed off again. I can't believe it. How many dead bodies do we need to have piled up?

You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look after them.

Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.

They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.

Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself

If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.