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

It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.

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

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 haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.

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.