God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.