I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.