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

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

I can't get no satisfaction.

No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

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.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.