Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

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

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

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.