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

The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

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

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

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

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.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.