I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.