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.

I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

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.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

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.