It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

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.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

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