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

I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

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.

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.

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

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

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