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.

You can never take the violence back.

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.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

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

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.