As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.