All dancing is a replacement for sex.

Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

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.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.