Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.