I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

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

Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

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

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.