If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as the people's voice, the people's art, it was grassroots. I don't believe that the people should be estranged from their rock stars. They're not kings and queens - all rock stars are those who are able to give back a bit of culture to other people. It's people's heritage.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"