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

Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

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

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

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

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.