In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that's not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes. That's not rock. Rock's about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty. But that's not really my approach.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.