If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that.

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

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.