Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.