I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

I don't want to change the world, I don't want the world to change me.

I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.

I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.