I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

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

I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.

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.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

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.