They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.

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?

I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.

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

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.