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

The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl band to really strut their stuff and say, "F**k you." "Cherry Bomb" was the best song for a girl band to sing. It was just outrageous at the time. There were American families sitting on the sofa watching television going, "F**k me." It was great fun.

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

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

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

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.