There are no uncriminal crimes.

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I don't broadcast that because it's against my image.

In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.