The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.