Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

There is good and bad in everyone.

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

Every love song I write is for Linda.