Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research - I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.