It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.